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Chamber Symphony


7, 2002, I attended the Kean Chamber Symphony. Out of all the songs, I liked Estancia Suite by Alberto Ginastera. Alberto Ginastera was Argentinean and was born in 1916 and died in 1983. Another one of his works were Variaciones Concertantes: The Final Movement: Allegro molto.
Estancia Suite was about a city boy, who tries to win the affection of a ranch girl, but is unable to compete with cowboys. The piece evoked a sense of competition and a great deal of emotion was shown through the music. It began very subtle and then in the end, began to get faster, louder, and striking. You could tell that there was some sort of race going on. It was very easy to imagine a scene from a movie and relate it to the music. I think that Ginastera wrote th...