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    Maggie McConnell wrote a response to the piece "Rainbow Body" composed by Christopher Theofanidis after performing it with the Philharmonic Orchestra. While she did not experience the divine inspiration of the composer, the music evoked strong emotions within her. Rather than chills, she felt an internal warmth from rediscovering new meaning in familiar notes. The climactic ending of tumultuous whoops conveys the celebration of ability that the piece inspires. Discovery is a process affected by experience and willingness to analyze emotions, and the interpretation of Theofanidis' music makes discovery powerful in our lives.

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    Maggie McConnell wrote a response to the piece "Rainbow Body" composed by Christopher Theofanidis after performing it with the Philharmonic Orchestra. While she did not experience the divine inspiration of the composer, the music evoked strong emotions within her. Rather than chills, she felt an internal warmth from rediscovering new meaning in familiar notes. The climactic ending of tumultuous whoops conveys the celebration of ability that the piece inspires. Discovery is a process affected by experience and willingness to analyze emotions, and the interpretation of Theofanidis' music makes discovery powerful in our lives.

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    Maggie McConnell wrote a response to the piece "Rainbow Body" composed by Christopher Theofanidis after performing it with the Philharmonic Orchestra. While she did not experience the divine inspiration of the composer, the music evoked strong emotions within her. Rather than chills, she felt an internal warmth from rediscovering new meaning in familiar notes. The climactic ending of tumultuous whoops conveys the celebration of ability that the piece inspires. Discovery is a process affected by experience and willingness to analyze emotions, and the interpretation of Theofanidis' music makes discovery powerful in our lives.

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    McConnell 1

    Maggie McConnell
    Ms. Dockus
    1st Hour American Literature
    7 February 2016
    Response to Rainbow Body composed by Christopher Theofanidis
    While I cannot claim to have ever experienced the level of divine realization that inspired
    Christopher Theofanidis to compose his piece, Rainbow Body, I can discuss the discovery of
    emotion that the piece evoked in me. Often, one may experience chills when hearing something
    that provokes strong emotion or introspective thought. When I preformed Rainbow Body with
    the Philharmonic Orchestra in DeVos Hall, however, the sensation I experienced can be more
    accurately described as an internal warmth. The music we created that morning was both familiar
    and foreign to me. I had heard each passage many times before, and yet each swell in the melody
    lead me to discover new meaning and context to notes that my ears had come so accustomed to.
    This renewed recognition of the repertoire inspired an unprecedented warmth and admiration for
    the ability of those around me. Their capability to convey such emotion from printed ink on
    paper, I thought, was something we should share and celebrate.
    My sentiments regarding Rainbow Body stem not from a particular chord progression
    or from its descendance from a 12th century religious chant, but more from an uncommon
    technique utilized towards the end of the piece. After the beginning statement begins to build
    once more, there is a climactic moment in which the cymbal crashes and the entire orchestra lets
    out a tumultuous whoop which revives itself over and over until the end of the piece. These
    shouts of elation accurately convey the discovery and celebration of ability and execution that
    Rainbow Body inspires.

    McConnell 2

    We do not describe discovery exclusively as the initial unearthing of thoughts and ideas,
    but also as the development of ideas and thoughts over time, perhaps with the assistance of
    others. Like many elements of life, discovery is a process. This process is affected by ones
    experience and willingness to accept and analyze the emotions that these experiences invoke.
    When Theofanidis composed Rainbow Body, he did not do so in order to inspire said notions
    in us, but the way in which we interpret his music is what makes discovery such a powerful and
    unique part of our lives.

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