Connecting L’Orfeo with a different work of music
Hello all, I decided to pick a piece and or a time in which a piece was prominent and in which where it expresses itself with much emotion and sentiment, and the human reality to that like the beautifully crafted L’Orfeo.
I found a specific moment and or a premiere of a piece in which expresses itself with much sentiment and seriousness. In the newspaper given and that was shown in The Negro Star in 1943 the article was titled, “New York Philharmonic Symphony’ Gives-Negroid Work First Performance.” With this title, I quickly and distinctly like to focus on the idea of music and how it gives us a certain feel or emotion in our lives with our personal experiences and or perspectives.
In a sense, both pieces are very different. Almost polar opposites, but I think their is importance in giving clarity and or perception to emotion. This piece by Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez who had specified that the piece at the time was in the works and or creation. But, in every way, when it would be done, it would give much expression in emotion for being a piece that displays “Negro Descent”. With that being said, the piece is supposed to portray many emotions like seriousness, sadness, and anger as well.
I could largely relate this to Orfeo. Yes, the pieces have different roadmaps to different stories but both portray an influx of many emotions throughout both said pieces in a small relative amount of time. This in sense, gives accountability to the idea that humans experience change and or great barriers in their life may cause a shift in dynamic to one’s life as well. As with devastation and abrupt change in Orfeo, to acceptance of difference in race at the time in which Black Americans felt small and also different to that of European Americans in life in general. Both pieces incorporate acceptance and also in a way human experience.
This in every way gives an answer to the absence that we often feel when we are going through a lot, but with music comes a light and or again, an answer. This way of expression can give so much idea and importance when giving a meaning to emotion in human beings and in life itself. I thought both pieces were beautiful, and I think in essence music brings answer and also serenity and redemption in acceptance, whether that be in creating a revolution of equality in music or in finding clarity in devastation of death and abrupt change.
“New York Philharmonic Symphony’ Gives-Negroid Work First Performance. Mendelssohn, Prokofieff and Tchaikovsky Works Also Performed”
Negro Star (published as The Negro Star)
(Wichita, Kansas) April 9th, 1943
