Vivaldi's “Spring”

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Written By Edward Wolfe

Springtime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg

This week’s piece is the first of a set of four violin concertos written by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). He named each concerto for a different season of the year, and each concerto has three movements in the pattern fast, slow, fast.

During the first movement of this piece, with a little imagination, you can hearing the chirping of birds, sudden stormy weather, and a gentle happiness.

The calm second movement evokes a peaceful and restful evening. The merry third movement with its lilting rhythms provides a calm and dance-like conclusion to the delightful concerto.

Note: A concerto is a piece for a soloist or a small group of soloists against and with the orchestra.

A movement is a longer, more or less self-contained part of a larger composition. Audiences customarily do not clap between movements, saving their applause for the end of the entire piece.

Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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