My Picket Fences: First Classic Concert

Monday, July 11, 2011

First Classic Concert

A lot of things happened last weekend, other than Heinerfest, there was a classic concert held at Darmstadtium. Our friends, got us free tickets to this beautiful concert. It was a special Philharmonie Merck concert because they choose several young musician between age 10 - 19 years old and invite them to perform with the professional orchestra. They played most of the classic songs that were well known to us and in a happy tunes, my favorite was one from the Nutcracker, Valse des Fleurs by Peter Tschaikowsky. Because this concert was on Sunday morning and because there was youngsters involved, we decided to take the children, my son and my friends daughter to this classic concert.

Greetings from The Conductor

The youngest violin player, about 11 years old

Now, this was Omar's first time on attending a classic concert. Of course he got bored and refused to sit still and stay calmed during the concert. However, a couple months ago, we borrowed a book from the library about concerts and opera. He remembered some pages where there were pictures of the orchestra and its musical instruments. He also acknowledged the classic song that he heard sometime ago from the musical soundtrack in Disney movie or our favorite musical theme from The Pirates of Caribbean - Klaus Badlet . So to ease his boredom, I taught him to listen carefully of which instruments that he heard throughout the concert. When he heard a timpanist playing his tambourine or a drum, then he mimicked them with a drumstick in his hands, when it times to the flute, he mimicked them like he held a flute. When he listened to a violin played, he mimicked the violinist like he was playing the violin without a sound. That was what kept him enjoying the performance and occupied him the entire night. At least I know he appreciated the music by listening something that is familiar to his ears.