Hi again Alex! I especially liked the calm part, the counterpoint is very beautiful and written with good taste. (It's right before the celesta or Glockenspiel episode.)
Speaking about celesta... this detail is very "Magic flute" inspired...lol!
The transition section, later is also very effective... very Viennese indeed!
You have a true feeling for beauty! Which is very important in Music...The successful Viennese era started with father Haydn and ended sort of when Mahler died...later in Vienna came composers like Arnold Schönberg and Alban Berg.
One, not so successful (According to Leonard Bernstein, Schönberg at the age of 70 suffered, because his complicated music was not being performed).
Alban Berg on the other hand was a winner thanks to his ability to compose beautiful 12 tone rows that did not bore the hell out of it's audience... Bernstein askes the question: "Why did Alban succeed, where Schönberg failed to reach a broad audience... both used the same 12 tone system in their music?" Who of the young people today (when Bernstein was still living.)... who can honestly say that they enjoy Pierrot Lunaire with the same love as they feel when listening to Stravinskij's "Rite of Spring" or Mahler's symphonies? Bernstein goes further..., he askes another question:
"Is there tonality even in the most intricate 12 tone structures?" Is there a negative ambiguity in Schönberg's music?... elements that are just to huge and too complex for the human ear to grasp?
Even though many young people today have difficulties to truly enjoy pieces like Pierrot Lunaire by Schönberg. (One of the pieces that Leonard Bernstein thinks is a terrible boring opus).
I personally love Schönberg's 5 pieces for orchestra! (Maybe his greatest 12tone work.)... and
"A Survivor of Warsaw"
I'm a big fan of Viennese music! I love the great Austrian masters like Amadeus, Anton Bruckner and Gustav Mahler.
What would the gigantic American and British film industry be without the German and Austrian masters like Wagner, Bruckner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler... there would be no Starwar... Indiana Jones... Tolkien Ring scores or Superman (John Williams) scores or James Bond (John Barry), or Alfred Hitchcock (Bernard Herrman).
interview with Arnold Schönberg. (advices to young composers by Arnold Schönberg. He declares his love for Mozart and how important his music has been to him!)