A Journey to A Mass from Baroque
On 18 December Tuesday, with an invitation of one of my friends, I went to a classic music concert second time in this year, in this paper I want to mention about this concert in which my friend sang in choir part. The concert was Austrian Culture Office which is located in Yeniköy.

In fact I do not go classical music concerts so much but I could not forget the concerts which I went. Especially the spectators, who are in the concert, arouse interest on me. In my point of view, they attribute special attention for this kind of concerts and they went them with their best clothes and especially women went by dressing their hair. This special care on spectators make excited me every pre-concert time, and a magical atmosphere is created by this way. But in this time, I faced with two people which got me angry and broke my excitement. One of them is a middle-aged woman who continuously spoke during the concert and the other is a man who began to speak with me during the cocktail and disturb me with some mathematic questions (!). The cocktail was quite rich; there were various kinds of cookies, white/red vine and fruit juice.

After an half hour cocktail, the concert was started. It was performed by Boğaziçi University Music Club Classical Music Choir and the Kopuz Orchestra. The program includes Antonio Vivaldi’s Konzert für Cello in F- dur (RV 411) and Gloria in D-dur (RV 589).

Before evaluating performance, I want to give some information about Vivaldi and about the composition. Vivaldi is one of the Baroque Music composers, borned in Venice in 1968 and firstly educated by his father in music. He composed several concertos, sonatas and some operas. The composition, Gloria is a popular piece from Vivaldi’s choral and sacred music, and it was actually written for female voices.

The performance of choir and the orchestra was quite good. On one hand, I really affected from it, but on the other, in some parts there were incompatibilities between choir and the orchestra. I do not know so much about technical information about music, but it is heard so for me. The composition was performed in the middle of the spectators and this created an intimate relationship between watchers and being watched.

I want to also say some observations about the hall, which concert performed. It was reflecting the atmosphere of the churches from the baroque. It was very huge and there was an ostentatious ceiling lamb and there were balconies up. I felt during the concert as if I am in a church and attending a mass.

In conclusion, it was a different experience for me. The performance consisted of several elements (the design of the performers in the middle, the structure of the hall and so on) and they were completing a whole. I like this whole and leave happy from there with my friends.