TheMeaningofLIfe

Well these are my thoughts as I listened through your piece twice with a brief pause between them. I do not intend to be hurtful but I speak my mind so excuse me for my bluntness.

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I found 5 sections to the piece when I listened and I'll go through each one.

Pt. 1-Pt. 2(Cued by the buildup into the large minimalistic texture) - I really like the atmosphere of these two and their developments were very interesting and moving. These were my favorite parts to the piece. I loved it when it kinda of calmed down around 5:00 before the violin stabs came in.

Pt. 3- This part for me felt like it lasted way too long. It was developed overtly and lacked the carrying power of the first two. It also was missing the downtime needed for an enticing theatrical experiance to conclude the rest of the piece. I would have personaly switched this with pt. 2. (Note-Around 7:43 was extremely nice.)

This part of the piece was when I got hopelessly lost within the development of it. The piece had turned into something that had gone on too long and I was starting to lose interest.

Pt. 4- I enjoyed this movement alot but it too lacked the exponential growth I love in music. Did I hear a bit of the second movement for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with the accenting horns around 11:35?

Pt. 5- I loved that little line at the end of four and beggining of this movemnt! Death = Yummy

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For me, you summoned Stravinsky's Firebird but left me with no pleasure that I usually find within it.

The music didn't move relatively with the rest of the piece. Towards the end I felt like you had called all your shots off and now its over. I unfortunately feel the same way about Stravinsky's pieces as well. For example I feel that the back half of The Rite Of Spring was quite boring when compared with the first.

-With a note on how I hear things and why they please me- (We are probably of varying opinions on this.)

When I listen to orchestral music I always find the open sounding slow movements to bring the most excitement not the sharp accented ones. I might be in the minority on this but, due to the carrying power of everyone doing legato open phrases vs. short accented phrases there is more to listen to and the sound is much richer and enticing.

I degress, now to put it in a fun little metaphor, "I like my choclate last."

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Hopefully Provoking,

Karl

(P.S. Good Job with this piece. It was a beautiful piece of music to listen too.)