The fast paced notes played by the trumpets and violins in the opening of the program gives me that

mission impossible vibe

“The Firebird”, is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The
ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing
and a curse to its captor. This ballot was first performed on the 25th of June in 1910. The Firebird was
Igor Stravinsky’s first project. Igor Stravinsky who composed the final excerpt of the ballot “The Firebird”
uses repetition, using one melody, forming diversity and distinction through alterations in dynamics,
tone color, and rhythm. Stravinsky’s uses dynamics in this melody by the loudness and softness that is
being played. A dynamic change can made suddenly or even gradually. When it increases in loudness, it
creates enthusiasm, especially when the pitches becomes to increase. To keep the melody from
sounding repetitive, Stravinsky uses timbre, or tone color, to distinguish each instrument that is being
played. When the tone color changes it can create variety and contrast. The same melody will have
different communicative sound effects when played by one instrument and then another. Stravinsky
gets the orchestra to be forte, meaning loud, and piano, meaning soft by using crescendo and
decrescendo. He uses piano (p) and forte (f) to make the melody more vibrant to hear, and to
distinguish each tone that is expected to be heard. The second scene begins softly but.

The first of Igor Stravinsky's three famous early ballets, The Firebird is the most traditional and
derivative. While The Firebird, similar to Petrushka and The Rite Of Spring, is unquestionably one of
Stravinsky's masterpieces, if considered strictly historically it can be, with some justice, viewed as
warmed-over Rimsky-Korsakov (the device of contrasting a folkloristic, diatonic style representing
human characters, with a highly chromatic style reserved for depicting the supernatural had its most
conspicuous use in Rimsky's opera The Golden Cockerel) burnished with a patina of Debussy (the
specifically colouristic orchestral opulence, although reflecting the influence of Stravinsky's teacher
Rimsky-Korsakov, sometimes additionally suggests the Debussy of La Mer). For such reasons, the Young
Stravinsky (who was twenty-seven when he wrote The Firebird) came to be thought by many
contemporary musicians and critics as a traditionalist and a nationalist - as one said, "the direct
descendant of Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov". In fact, it would have been difficult to perceive the future anti-
nationalist and Rite Of Spring revolutionist in The Firebird, or for that matter, in any other of Stravinsky's
initial orchestral pieces. Stravinsky himself ultimately put the matter in best perspective when he wrote
that The Firebird "belongs to the styles of its time. It is more vigorous than most of the composed folk
music of the period, but it is also not very original. These are all good conditions for a success."