Review of Music of a Concert
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The concert was given by the Hunter Symphony with the pianist Abbey Simon. It was presented at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 18, 1998 at the Hunter College Auditorium. The pieces played by the orchestra were Overture to the Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini, Pictures at an Exhibition by Modeste Mussorgsky, and Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 by FrTdTric Chopin. The overture to the opera presented a great number of contrasts of tone and meter with themes that were repeated and resolved in the conclusion. The Chopin piece was played by Simon and the orchestra together. The Mussorgsky piece was written as a commemoration of an artist friend of the composer. It was inspired by a visit to an exhibition of the dead friend's paintings and consists of musical versions of some of the pictures in the exhibition. A piece called the Promenade, which depicts the composer moving from one piece to another, recurs in between most of the early pieces--though it
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