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Karen - congratulations on the concerts. And, do not flog yourself over mistakes. Violinists who are much better than you or me make them in concerts (I have heard them), and even getting it right in rehearsal is no guarantee that you will not slip up. If I had a buck for every mistake I made during a concert, I could buy a much better violin than I have. So, give yourself a big pat on the back, do a little viola, and move on to the next project. Your description of that piece of music sounds like Violinists' Hell. There were a lot of different things in that movement--what I was trying to do was keep track of all the hard things I did right. In some ways I hope I can be proud of myself, because at least there were more of those than things I did wrong. :) As mentioned above professionals at all levels make mistakes also. If no mistakes were ever made we would be boring robots.