FIrst, off. Congratulations on winning the first round of NGMT! The voters seemed to choose well this round :P This meets the themes standards perfectly. I'm not sure if you were going for one color or no color, but to met it sounds like there was no color, if you went for that, then nice work! You pretty much touch up on everything in your description that needs to be changed. The violins are a bit cheesy, they are a bit high-pitched at times as well... I would have liked to hear my variation in the piece though. The piece isn't repetitive note-wise, but conceptually it is. Just message me if you don't get what I mean, I can explain further DX Maybe it would have been cool to hear some piano take the lead melody and the violin take a break, that may have helped tone down the cheesy-ness a bit. But anyways, this was an awesome piece and was well worthy of winning this round! Great work!
-Stunkel