His name was Ronald Boudreaux. He was a baritone. He sang songs in geRman, french and english. The songs i will analize are Vier Ernste Gesnge and Dover Beach. The composers are Johanes Bramms and Samual Barber. The concert took place in Lotte Lehman Concert Hall on December the third, nineteen hundred and eighty-six.
When I saw him perform the moment he entered I immediately got the chills. His pienist, Roger Keele, and him were dressed in black tuxedos, which added to the creepy effect. The concert took place in an evening amidst a fairly persistent wind. It horrified me.
The first songs was by Bramms. In it the piano accompaniament played a nice song. Occasionally, the two together would play a bouncy rythm. Simultaneously they would switch off, the piano would play a quick, humorous phrase. This reminded me of the oompa lumpa song in Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.
The second song was by Samual barber. The second song was by Samual Barber. The title of the song was called dover beach. I didn't like it, however. However, it did have some good qualities to it. It had a string quartet playing along with it. The string quartet players were following players: June Huang played the violin, Laura Schumann also played the violin, John Scanlon played the viola, and Mira Focus played the cello.
The string quartet had a very harsh sound to its tones. Perhaps dissonant or conjunct. The tone colors created by the violins was very concord. The voice becomes syllabic and melismatic. There were many crescendos. Followed by long pregnant phrases which contributed to the explosive emotion of this piece.
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