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    The document provides a report on a live western classical music concert featuring the works of composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams. It summarizes the background and specialties of each composer, including the pieces they performed. The performance featured Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", Glass's "The Trial", and Adam's "A Flowering Tree". The author notes similarities in style and themes across the minimalist works. They observed slow tempos, repetition, and blending of modern and classical instruments. Overall the performance effectively displayed characteristics of western classical music genres. The author concluded they enjoyed the concert and learning about the musical traditions.

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    The document provides a report on a live western classical music concert featuring the works of composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams. It summarizes the background and specialties of each composer, including the pieces they performed. The performance featured Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", Glass's "The Trial", and Adam's "A Flowering Tree". The author notes similarities in style and themes across the minimalist works. They observed slow tempos, repetition, and blending of modern and classical instruments. Overall the performance effectively displayed characteristics of western classical music genres. The author concluded they enjoyed the concert and learning about the musical traditions.

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    The document provides a report on a live western classical music concert featuring the works of composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams. It summarizes the background and specialties of each composer, including the pieces they performed. The performance featured Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", Glass's "The Trial", and Adam's "A Flowering Tree". The author notes similarities in style and themes across the minimalist works. They observed slow tempos, repetition, and blending of modern and classical instruments. Overall the performance effectively displayed characteristics of western classical music genres. The author concluded they enjoyed the concert and learning about the musical traditions.

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    Live Western Music Concert Report.

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    The document provides a report on a live western classical music concert featuring the works of composers Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and John Adams. It summarizes the background and specialties of each composer, including the pieces they performed. The performance featured Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", Glass's "The Trial", and Adam's "A Flowering Tree". The author notes similarities in style and themes across the minimalist works. They observed slow tempos, repetition, and blending of modern and classical instruments. Overall the performance effectively displayed characteristics of western classical music genres. The author concluded they enjoyed the concert and learning about the musical traditions.

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    Live Western Music Concert Report

    Definition of Western Classical Music

    Western Classical Music refers to all the songs that were composed during the late 18th

    and 19th centuries. All these songs had similar characteristics that include Mozart’s sonata. Also,

    this form of music derived its originality from beauty, elegance and balance and significance

    contracts in dynamics, pitch, key, and mood. Today, Western Classical Music is defined as any

    other form of music considered to be a serious work of art apart from jazz and pop music. Most

    classical music was composed for religious purposes including glorifying God.

    Western Classical Music to Be Performed

    The major classical music performers in the concert include Steve Reich, Philip Glass,

    and John Adams. Reich is an American-born minimalist musician who specializes mainly in

    minimal classical music that is a new form of traditional western classical music. He is known

    for using repetitive figures, canons, tape loops, and simple audible processes. Reich has ancestral

    links to the Jews and that is why some of his music including Pendulum (1968), It’s Gonna Rain

    (1965), and Come Out (1966) have some historical Jewish themes(Pymm 250). He has more than

    50 compositions that touch on family values, love, human relationships, and ethical issues. Glass

    is also an American music composer and pianist who is highly respected among the 20th-century

    classical musicians linked to the minimalist group. His main areas of specialization include

    operas, symphonies, concertos, string quartets, and film scores. On this day, Reich was
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    performing It’s Gonna Rain (1965) that describes the end of the world using Noah’s story ad a

    prelude. This song was composed by Glass to make people aware and warn them to be prepared

    for the second coming of Jesus Christ. Glass's musical career was largely influenced by his self-

    taught father and an accomplished classical musician(Groth 690). Glass has close to 100 mainly

    piano-based compositions. This composer considered education, religion, relationships, and

    family core issues in promoting ethical behavior in society and that is where his main themes

    were derived from. His works and passion for music were largely influenced by Franz Schubert

    who is still his favorite composer. On this day, Glass was performing The Trial (2014) that

    describes the moral and professional decadence affecting the judicial system and how societal

    norms have been eroded by immorality. Adams is also an American minimalist classical music

    composer and occasionally conducts opera sessions. He has more than 60 compositions that

    mainly depict the minimalist and post-minimalist sentiments and themes. Adam’s musical

    journey was largely influenced by John Cage’s book Silence (1973), the Darmstadt School of

    Twelve Tone compositions and Serialism that were major events during his youthful

    life(Johnson 49). On this day, he was performing A Flowering Tree (2006) that tells of a story of

    a young Indian couple undergoing a ritual to cement their union through discovering the true

    meaning of love embedded in folktales.

    The Performance

    All these three performances Adam's A Flowering Tree (2006), Glass's The Trial (2014),

    and Reich's It's Gonna Rain (1965) depict similar characteristics and style. Adam, Reich, and

    Glass are all minimalists followers and grew up almost during the same time and although they

    were influenced by different personalities and events, the themes and styles reflected common

    features that define the western classical music genres. First, I listened to the tempo and speed of
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    all these compositions and realized that all were slow-paced with loops and the Mozart sonata

    beats. The combination of both stringed and non-stringed instruments such as guitar and piano

    respectively changed the whole presentations to a mixture of ancient and modern classical music.

    I remember how the musicians transitioned from one stanza to the next through prolonged

    acoustic beats that were periodically interrupted by natural sounds such as a dove taking a flight

    in Glass’s music. Also, I remember the beats in all these three music were all accompanied by

    slow body movements that could also go well with opera presentations. Another unique aspect I

    discovered about these presentations was that there was a lot of repetition. The artists repeated

    both words, beats, tunes, and pitch, making the music seem like around the song. The

    presentation was exactly what I was expecting since I have been a classical music fan for a long

    time now. I was very happy and even the audiences around me were also excited by the

    performances. The performers did great work and I think the experiences they have in the

    classical music industry is unrivaled.

    Lessons

    From both my research and attending the musical concert, I have learned that western

    classical music is the mother of all forms of music today. All these other new genres of music

    originated from classical music. I have realized that it is not easy to compose classical music and

    that is why there are few composers. Composing classical music takes time, requires patience,

    hard work, commitment, and resilience. In addition, I have realized that although classical music

    sounds old-fashioned, listening to it is the best form of entertainment and at the same time

    learning some important aspects about cultures, relationships, and societal ethical issues. Given

    another chance, I will choose to attend this concert every time it is held because I enjoyed the

    music and learned a lot from both the composers and their compositions.
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    Works Cited

    Groth, Sanne Krogh. "Composers on Stage: Ambiguous Authorship in Contemporary Music

    Performance." Contemporary Music Review 35.6 (2016): 686-705.

    Johnson, Timothy A. John Adams's Nixon in China: Musical Analysis, Historical and Political

    Perspectives. Routledge, 2016.

    Pymm, John. "‘English is the Only Language Which I Speak’: New Narratives in Reich’s My

    Name Is (1967)." Contemporary Music Review 38.3-4 (2019): 247-270.

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