On Saturday April 9th, I attended the Austin symphony’s showing of Schubert’s Unfinished symphony “The Sounds of Hope”. The Symphony was filled with incredible pieces by Verdi, Schubert, and contemporary composers Nigel Westlake and Lior Attar. The evening began with Verdi’s Nabucco from his opera that follows the plight of the Jews as they were subsequently exiles from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco. The next piece was Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Schubert started this piece in 1822 but wasn’t finished after the first two movements. After the intermission, the evening concludes with film composer Nigel Westlake, who was awarded a Golden-Globe for his musical soundtrack for the movie babe. Westlake and Attar’s song was crafted with seven-movements from Hebrew and Arabic Prayer texts. Compassion received its US premiere on this night.
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This Operas orchestration is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one cimbasso, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, side drum, triangle, two harps, strings, and an onstage band. The First act was slow and lyrical almost as if they were sneaking upon the kingdom. It was mainly trumpets and violins at this point which gave it a very solemn tone but close to the end of the first act it took off and the trumpets almost sang an angelic toon. The second act was dancelike with its fast upbeat toon. The clarinets and flutes give this act a very happy yet angelic tone. The Third act was joined by a trumpet as the soloist but was joined by the clarinets and violins to make you feel almost as if you were on angel wings. The last act was every instrument at its best violins, drums, and trumphets giving off cadence. This piece was all together amazing and
This Operas orchestration is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, one cimbasso, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, side drum, triangle, two harps, strings, and an onstage band. The First act was slow and lyrical almost as if they were sneaking upon the kingdom. It was mainly trumpets and violins at this point which gave it a very solemn tone but close to the end of the first act it took off and the trumpets almost sang an angelic toon. The second act was dancelike with its fast upbeat toon. The clarinets and flutes give this act a very happy yet angelic tone. The Third act was joined by a trumpet as the soloist but was joined by the clarinets and violins to make you feel almost as if you were on angel wings. The last act was every instrument at its best violins, drums, and trumphets giving off cadence. This piece was all together amazing and