We got the chance to see a performance by Maestro Bramwell Tovey on May, 30, 2016. He started off with a really complicated piece (at least for me) on the piano, then he went to explain himself. Maestro Tovey is a music conductor and composer, born in United Kingdom, July 11, 1953 (age 63). He is really good at Piano and he has a very funny accent (no offense :P). The music he played was very cool, and though I do not like classical music that much, I kind of grew to like it because of his playing. He did a great job and I think he is a very talented person because if I were to learn at least one song he played that day, then my brain would be dead! Maestro Tovey is a very awesome person to be honest. He seems really fun, and if someone were to have him as their music teacher, I bet they’d learn really fast!
It’s pretty cool that we got to meet Maestro Bramwell Tovey because now the whole school has a better perspective on classical music and especially music by Beethoven. Tovey told us about Beethoven and played many famous pieces that Beethoven made. The music was very soothing and calming in a way, maybe something I could listen to to go to bed!
I was interested by your comment about not liking classical music much. I think sometimes we can all be guilty of making assumptions about a particular kind of music based on what we’ve heard others say about it or based on only hearing one or two pieces. It might be easy to make assumptions about heavy metal music based on hearing only a few seconds that maybe didn’t sound very melodic or based on the look of some bands. You don’t have to be a classical music fan, nor a hip hop fan nor a heavy metal fan. Whether you like it or not is a matter of opinion, but hopefully none of us leaps to form our opinions without first listening. Listening is very important after all.