Last Friday I went to go see Georgia O'Keeffe's exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It was fantastic. Earlier that day I had also gone to the Guggenheim to see Kandinsky's display but I found that I could not connect with it as well as I could with O'Keeffe's work.  In her collection, the main focus of her paintings were flowers.  Sometimes the image would be of a flower explicitly and other times it would be depicting more the essence of what a flower is.

The Windsor Castle

As I had entered the Alexander Sting Quartet performance at Baruch I promised myself to break the everlasting love hate relationship between classical music and me. I decided to look for elements that I had never noticed before, something that will help me stay focus, and appreciate what I was presented with.

     The Alexander String Quartet was performed well altogether, to say the least. I came to like the second piece, String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1 composed by Robert Schumann,  the most. I believe the specific piece is called Adagio, which was performed by four professional musicians. There were total of four instruments used, the viola, the cello, and the two violins. The sound was rather relaxing yet very serious as the piece heightened. It sounded to me like a dramatic scene in a movie that was tragic or appalling.

 The Alexander String Quartet performance was done by obvious skilled professionals. From the moment they began, I noticed that their melodies were so in sync and pleasant to the ear. I noticed some techniques in particular of these 4 musicians. In one instance, 3 of the musicians would play the same tunes while one drew more attention than the others by subtly playing different notes.