For my first required concert in this course, I decided to attend a local Terre Haute Symphony concert. The concert took place on September 26, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. at Tilson Auditorium located on the campus of Indiana State University. The evening's musical program was a presentation of Dvorak's “New World Symphony” and Sibelius' “Concerto in D minor for violin and orchestra, op 47” with guest violinist Ariel Horowitz. The opening piece was “Overture to Zampa” by Louis Herold. The pieces performed this evening were from a mixture of genres. “Overture to Zampa” is an instrumental piece of an opera while the other two pieces were symphonic pieces. All composers can be considered to belong to the Romantic era, but they all come from different eras. Herold is said to have composed in the late Classical and early Romantic periods alongside composers like Schubert and Mozart. Dvorak, meanwhile, is said to have composed at the end of the era with composers such as Tchaikovsky and Grieg. Finally Sibelius would have been active at the very end of the Romantic era/very beginning of the classical period of the 20th century. He would have been active alongside DeBussy and Richard Strauss. The programs for this performance contained interesting information about the composers performed with their pieces. It also contained general information about the Symphony itself, the conductor David Bowden, the soloist and gave the names of all the members of the Symphony. The program notes contained extensive descriptive information about each of the pieces. Herold's description of the piece included the fact that although it is a darker subject, Zampa is considered...... middle of paper...... cleverly Native American in sound . The audience for this concert was a very diverse mix. There were older people dressed to the nines, younger people who were obviously students, and people in between. We were also joined by attendees of the Linda Luebke Strings Festival, including my eldest daughter, a local violist. Most of the audience was totally captivated by the show and well behaved, with the exception of one young man who was apparently feeling very ill. I was very nervous about going to the concert and worried that I wouldn't feel like I belonged, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that once the music started, I felt very comfortable . I really enjoyed the show and together with my husband I decided that even after this course ended we would make it a point to continue attending these shows as often as possible..