A music concert

Yesterday, I had gone to a music concert held at the Coimbatore Music School, a musical joint venture between a few music teachers in Coimbatore and The Royal School of Music, Sweden. The project is financed in part by SIDA. Yesterday's concert focussed on the strings section, i.e., the violins, cellos, and basses. The program started around 6:30 pm. The first item was Concerto in C Major for Cello and String Orchestra. Franz Joseph Haydn was the composer of this exquisite piece. The concerto consists of three movements. A movement is a portion of a music piece, something similiar to ragas in Indian Classical Music. The first movement is Allegro Moderato (The music is played with a moderate degree of quickness. Allegro means quick and moderato means moderately). The second movement is Adagio (A slow passage, movement, or work. The tempo would be very slow and graceful.) and the third movement is Presto (Music is played with a swift tempo, faster than allegro). The concerto was conducted by Mark Lomnas with Magnus Lanning playing the cello. The strings section consisted of violinsts, cellists and double bassists, comprosing of people from Cochin, Bangalore and Chennai. The second item of the day was a vocal performance by Cecilia Ohrvall. She performed two songs, Venti Pranti and Lascia ch'io pianga (Music and lyrics: G.F. Händel). The string orchestra accompanied her. The next piece was an Mexican Christmas song titled "Earth's Joy" played by the string orchestra. This was followed by a traditional Christmas Carol, "Silent Night". The Coimbatore Music School Choir. comprising of children between the ages 8 to 12, sung this moving piece with the strings providing a solemn backing. After this, the staff of CMS sang a latin hymn titled "In Dulci Jublio". The next vocal piece was a traditional song from Papua New Guinea titled "Kumbaya". Then a musical piece titled "Divertimento In D Major" written by Mozart was played by the orchestra. The day finally ended with another vocal perfomance by the CMS choir children. They sang three songs, titled "I like the flowers", "New moon", and "We are the flowers". It was wonderful to listen to the concert. There will be a similar concert to be held in Bangalore at the Bangalore School of Music. I'll inform you about the dates later.