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May 2010
Youtube Wedding
May 30, 2010 21:00
So, it's been said on this website before, but I now know what it means to have the music overrule the technique involved in playing the violin. I was hired to play a wedding by myself and the bride-to-be wanted a video of me playing some of the things from ceremony.
I made the video tonight, but it seriously took me 8 or 9 takes to get the final one. Something would always go wrong in one of the three pieces, so I'd have to start over again! This is the one I sent here and at about the 1:09 mark, I "stutter" for a split second. So basically, "Jesu" wasn't as fluid as it should be, but I was not about to record again for the 10th time. (also, my f# at about 1:20 is a little sketchy)
I got an email back from the client, and basically, she didn't care that I wasn't 1000% happy with my performance. She even cried and called my playing effortless and said her fiance's jaw dropped.
It's always about the music and who's listening to you.
MD
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Summer Goals, Violin Style.
May 27, 2010 16:52
This summer is looking to be quite interesting for me. I'm graduating high school, going to Disney World soon after, and in August will be heading off to Shenandoah University as either a music ed. or performance major. In between doesn't look quite as glamorous... working? Practicing? (No money for a summer festival.... again.) Despite this, I have a few violin-related goals I'd like to share with you. I hope to get most of these things accomplished before school starts.
- Work diligently on Kreutzer etudes. Currently, I'm working on 31.
- Learn more solo Bach. I'll probably stick with movements from partitas 2 and 3.
- Work on three octave scales EVERY DAY. No matter what. (Lofty, but useful.)
- Perform at church like no one's business. Virtual sheet music is a God-send. (Pun intended?) Rachmaninov Vocalise, an arrangement of Moonlight Sonata, Solo Bach, Handel sonata movements? Who knows what I'll feel like playing.
- Coinciding with the last one, I plan to play the first movement of Beethoven's Spring Sonata in church as late as I can before I go away to school. I have performed so many times in church it's not funny and the seriously love everything I do, whether or not I'm happy with the performance.
Lazy days of summer my arse. :) I'll update you if I remember.
MD
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