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October 2005Orchestra drawings of Hans Tutert of the (Dutch) Gouda Symfony OrchestraPublished: Oct. 1, 2005 at 2:03 PMLast modified: Oct. 1, 2005 at 2:39 PM
Now I know how to paste foto’s on my blog - thanks Robert Niles- , so I got some new ideas for blog updates. There was also a drawer in one of my amateurorchestra’s, in Gouda, a city near my village Waddinxveen, near Rotterdam, in which I played for half a year. We played for example easy stuff like the Gold and Silver waltz from Franz Lehar. These Orchestra drawings you also can see on their orchestrawebsite, if you like:   
Janacek-beerPublished: Oct. 1, 2005 at 2:28 PMLast modified: Oct. 1, 2005 at 2:38 PM
Ever heard of Janacek-beer? There is a brewery in the South of the Czech Republic with the same last name as the Czech composer Leos Janacek, who wrote 2 Strings Quartets and also a reconstructed violinconcerto. cd 25) Leos Janacek violinconcerto (1926, reconstr. 1988) by Christiane Neumann, Arte Nova 74321 30481 2. 
Baiba Skride and Janine Jansen laying in a chairPublished: Oct. 2, 2005 at 9:49 PMLast modified: Oct. 2, 2005 at 10:01 PM
What do you think of the “beautiful hot violin chix”, like some people said in the Julia Fischer discussion, Baiba Skride (no guestbook and no emailadress) http://www.baibaskride.com. Ever heard a concert or bought a cd of this former QE-winner, who is laying relaxed in a chair like Janine Jansen www.janinejansen.com (foto below)?  
Dog likes classical musicPublished: Oct. 4, 2005 at 10:33 AMHond houdt van klassiek (Dutch) means: Dog likes classical music. So don’t study too long on your violin, because there is a change that your dog will find a nice place to lay. 
CONCERT-GEBOUW AmsterdamPublished: Oct. 5, 2005 at 10:42 AMLast modified: Oct. 5, 2005 at 10:43 AM
This scan I made of a T-shirt I bought during a pause of a concert in the  It is the best visited concerthall in the world with nearly a million visitors in a year 850.000, mostly for classical music, and there are less seats since the last rebuilding, because they change the seats and gave more room for the legs for long people. Now there are 1974 seats in the Main Hall, as they called it on the website, normally called the big hall. In the Recital Hall, mainly for chambermusic, normally called the little hall there are 438 seats, 376 below + 62 on the balcony. I played twice as amateur in the Main Hall, once in 1991 with a studentorchestra with a traditional gala-ball in full dress after the concert the whole night till 6 in the morning and than breakfast somewhere and last year in 2004, and will play here for the third time in my life here next year, apart from the many churches and other smaller halls, where I usually play.  
Roofing-tile with violinmusic and violinPublished: Oct. 6, 2005 at 10:43 AMIn Holland some people, mostly in villages, have the custom to put their names near the door-bell on a roofing-tile. They also often have those same roofing-tiles on their roof of baken clay. Most of the time they put the upper layer from a table napkin with gnomes, flowers or animals with glue on the roofing-tile. Later they varnish it against the rain. So the pictures are not painted but cut out of a table napkin. There are specialised shops in Holland for this sort of hobby and decoration. You can see an example of such a roofing-tile from family or person H. van Dijk, number 32 with gnomes in my neighbourhood.  So with this idea I also want to have a roofing-tile next to my door-bell instead of a boring door-plate with only my name on it, but I didn’t want a common one with “welkom” or in English!! “Welcome” on it with gnomes, flowers or animals from table napkins (you could buy these napkins in those specialized hobbyshops). I found 2 miniatureviolins in these shops and a paper with music and a woman of the administration of our machinefactory made with her hobbyclub those roofing-tiles, which I attached next to my door-bell now. Because I live in the Eikenlaan (Oak-avenue) she used leaves from oaktrees on my door-plate-roofing-tiles.  But the music on my roofing-plates are for piano. But only specialists like us know that. My neighboorwoman was astonished because of my beautiful roofing-tiles next to my door-bell and admired them a lot.  A man in our village sold miniature Wind-mills which I have now in my garden. 
String QuartetPublished: Oct. 8, 2005 at 11:42 PMLast modified: Oct. 8, 2005 at 11:44 PM
Here a foto of me playing (second violin) in a string quartet, about 10 years ago, when I was a student during our yearly chamber-‘competition’. The chambermusic club of our orchestra (Sempre Crescendo) was C-dur. The color of the orchestra was blue and the color of C-dur was yellow. With an other string quartet I had played SQ KV 421 of Mozart, but here we played Rosamunde of Schubert, also quite easy. But our viola-player was ill so we arrange a substitute. Another problem was that the first violin was forgotten his music, so he had to read from the Quartett music score for all four. We had to repeat one part and we 3 had to turn 1 page, but the first violinist had to turn 5 pages.  People began to yell and laugh. But the atmosphere was not serious, so therefore we got a prize for the most authentic playing and got a big part of cheese, which is yellow, just like the color of C-Dur. The committee of C-Dur wear yellow committee-dresses and we began and end the evening with singing the C-dur song (in C-dur) with the notes and text on a yellow paper. The name of our quartet was: The Radio and Television Philharmonic Chamber String Quartet, but we didn’t reach Carnegie Hall.
ANDRÉ RIEU in the United StatesPublished: Oct. 10, 2005 at 10:44 AMLast modified: Oct. 10, 2005 at 10:47 AM
Don’t miss the most famous (Dutch) violinist of the world. He is touring in the USA. This I found on his website www.Andrerieu.com :  http://www.andrerieu.com/site/index.php?id=7&L=1 11 Dec 2005
Playing Bach during a housewarming-partyPublished: Oct. 13, 2005 at 4:31 PMLast modified: Oct. 14, 2005 at 7:42 PM
 During a house-warming party people ask me to play something on my instrument. So I took my violin and played some Bach. I played Bach earlier for auditions for orchestra’s, specially Partita 2 part 1 Allemanda and part 2 Corrente. One time I played the Chaconne, Partita 2 last part, BWV 1004 on an audition. For this I use a curtain rail upside down on my standing desk and I put copies of the 7 pages attached to each other with adhesive tape in this rail, so I didn’t have to turn over the pages. I began with the first page at the left and during the chaconne I walked to the right to the last curtainrailpage. The fastest time was 14 minutes with a lot of mistakes, but Thomas Zethetmaier on my elpee played it in 11 minutes. 10 years after my Chaconne-audition with the curtainrail with the 7 pages on my desk I was walking on a wedding, when suddenly the conductor during that audition came to me and asked whether I was that guy with that construction on his desk, who did 10 years ago an audition (without success), which I admit. On that housewarming-party I played Partita 2, part 1 Allemanda. The people on that party mostly don’t know much of classical music, so after 2 minutes of playing I suddenly stopped playing and said:"shi
Playing Bach during a housewarming-party (part2, I got problems with my blog)Published: Oct. 13, 2005 at 10:35 PMLast modified: Oct. 14, 2005 at 7:51 PM
During a house-warming party people ask me to play something on my instrument. So I took my violin and played some Bach. I played Bach earlier for auditions for orchestra’s, specially Partita 2 part 1 Allemanda and part 2 Corrente. One time I played the Chaconne, Partita 2 last part, BWV 1004 on an audition. For this I use a curtain rail upside down on my standing desk and I put copies of the 7 pages attached to each other with adhesive tape in this rail, so I didn’t have to turn over the pages. I began with the first page at the left and during the chaconne I walked to the right to the last curtainrailpage. The fastest time was 14 minutes with a lot of mistakes, but Thomas Zethetmaier on my elpee played it in 11 minutes. 10 years after my Chaconne-audition with the curtainrail with the 7 pages on my desk I was walking on a wedding, when suddenly the conductor during that audition came to me and asked whether I was that guy with that construction on his desk, who did 10 years ago an audition (without success), which I admit. On that housewarming-party I played Partita 2, part 1 Allemanda. The people on that party mostly don’t know much of classical music, so after 2 minutes of playing I suddenly stopped playing …and said: “Shi t, I made a mistake.” They laughed, but had not noticed the mistake as outsiders and looking to me like a looking to a monkey, who did his tric.(I got a problem with my blog, I could not add text to my blog and could not comment on my blog, but now it seems ok) Normally I hold my violin lower
Henri Vieuxtemps and the Belgian beer: Vieux Temps (Old Times)Published: Oct. 15, 2005 at 7:31 PMLast modified: Oct. 21, 2005 at 10:36 AM
I like all 7 violonconcerto’s of Henri Vieuxtemps and his 2 celloconcerto’s and his chambermusic for violin and piano like Six Salon Pieces op.22 with nr.3 rêverie, which I have played on an audition, and Voices of the Heart op.53, played by Philippe Koch, violin and Luc Devos, piano, Cyp 3613 (by the way I saw Luc Devos in the semi’s of the Queen Elisabeth competitions playing together with the Belgian Ivanov, who was 2th in the final). After 2 delays there is a big change that I will play the first celloconcerto op.46 with an amateurorchestra. For that purpose – another purpose is to play one of his violin concerto’s, the 5th is the most played, IF Vieuxtemps has been played- I go just over the border of the Netherlands and Belgium and buy in a specialized shop Belgian specialty beer of the name Vieux Temps. Some of those crates I drink myself, because it is very good beer, but during a rehearsalweekend of an amateurorchestra I take a crate Vieux Temps- beer with me to promote the name of this composer, in the hope that some day that orchestra will play this composer. Even amateurviolinists sometimes don’t know the name of this composer. The name of Paganini is much more well known, even among people who don’t know much about classical music. After Mozart, Bach and Beethoven Paganini is even more well known than Brahms, but you seldom hear one of his 6 violinconcerto’s, from which the first one is the most often played IF Paganini v.c’s will be played.   
Earplugs: Protect your ears for laterPublished: Oct. 17, 2005 at 10:39 AMI always play in my 5 amateurorchestra’s every week with earplugs Quiet from Howard Leight, which they use in our machinefactory against the sounds in the production like polishing a piece of metal. If you are sitting next to the piccolo or in front of the horns in a Bruckner symfony I pull them deep in my ears, as second violinist behind. But even when you play even alone with strings with no woodblowers or copperblowers with forte the sound is too loud. Than I pull my earplugs not so deep and easily can hear the conductor talking. You can also hear yourself good, because you hear more vibrations through your chin. So you hear yourself low and the orchestra low. For woodblowers the problem of earplugs is that they blow away and could not hear themselves, because they don’t have vibrations through the chin like violinists have, where the instrument is also more closer near your (left)ear. Even during classical concerts, when I don’t play in the orchestra but when I sit and listen in the concerthall I sometimes use those earplugs when all the copperinstruments and the instruments of percussion in an orchestra are playing too loud, for example at the end of a symfony. But also when I play a concert in an amateurorchestra I use those earplugs. And of course when I listen to a band or a rockconcert, like when a friend played saxophone in a skaband, last week. Or when I am in a disco. I have learned from Beethoven who didn’t have earplugs in his days. 
Beautiful hot violinchixxx Linda Brava + (Linda)ciderPublished: Oct. 20, 2005 at 10:38 AMViolingirl and a drink, just a good combination. http://www.inmag.fi/linda/english She plays Elgar, Faure, Gounod, here are some mp3 samples: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000026D4C/qid=/br=1-/ref=br_lf_m_//102-2598052-8965742?v=glance&s=music&n=465176 www.beautyinmusic.com/artist_pages/linda_brava_p.htm - 9k -    
28 amateurorchestra’s till nowPublished: Oct. 21, 2005 at 10:48 AMLast modified: Oct. 21, 2005 at 10:53 AM
Here an old foto of 10 years ago of me (right) playing in a student orchestra Sempre Crescendo. If you played 4 decemberconcerto’s you got a bronze pin/medal. If you had played 8 decemberconcerto’s you got a gold pin/medal. The silver medal you could get after 2 years of committee of the orchestra Sempre Crescendo or 1 year lustrumcommittee and 1 year orchestracommittee. So my aim was to get the gold medal, although I was already ready with my studies and working in a (chemical) factory at that time.  Normally I play in 4 or 5 orchestra’s every week. These are the orchestra’s I played in in my life, at least half a year, often depending of the programm. Orchestra’s: , at least half a year, the numbers are from the FASO-list (on my blog), some orchestra’s have been disappeared without number and some are no member of the FASO: 1) Youth Orchestra Leiden -fridayevening 2) 167Studenten Muziekgezelschap "Sempre Crescendo -mondayevening 3) 164Leids Studenten Koor en Orkest Collegium Musicum -tuesdayevening 4) Haagsche Serenata, Zoetermeer –sundayevening (no FASO-member) 5) Geldermalsens Symfony Orchestra –thursdayevening (together with Tiels chamber orchestra now) 6) Tiels Chamber Orchestra –wednesdayevening 7) 74Het Orkest van Utrecht –wednesdayevening 8) 77Projekt Orkest Utrecht -weekend 9) 82Utrechtse Muziekacademie –wednesdayevening 10) 84Orkest van het Groene Hart vh Woerdens Symfonie Orkest –wednesdayevening 11) 106Philharmonie - orkest van De Nieuwe Muziekvereniging - fridayevening 12) 107Symphonie Orkest Con Brio -mondayevening 13) 133Rijnlands Symfonie Orkest Alphen a/d Rijn -tuesdayevening 14) 136Delfts Symphonie Orkest –wednesdayevening 15) 142Bataafs Symfonie Orkest -thursdayevening 16) 143Symfonie Orkest "Bellitoni"–wednesdayevening + weekend 17) 147Haags Symfonie Orkest Euterpe -mondayevening 18) 150Orkestvereniging "Musica" -tuesdayevening 19) 154ZuidHollands Symfonieorkest –wednesdayevening 20) 160Gouds Symfonie Orkest – thursdayevening 21) 166Orkest "Leiden Sinfonietta" – thursdayevening 22) 168Toonkunst Orkest Leiden –wednesdayevening 23) 169Leiderdorps Kamerorkest -tuesdayevening 24) 176Stichting Ridderkerks Symfonie Orkest -saturdaymorning 25) 183Stichting Orkest Intermezzo -weekend 26) 157Orchest Vereeniging Dordrecht –wednesdayevening 27) Striking Strings, chamberstringorchestra Leiden, -wednesdayevening and weekend (disappeared) 28) Rayader chamberorchestra Leiden (no FASO-member) Apart from the evening sessions most orchestra’s have 1 or 2 day's in a weekend extra rehearsals. Earth Wind and Fire sings in I’ll write a song for you (1977): love is a symfony, hearts in one melody. I say: Live is a symfony (and a rare violinconcerto) with a good melody
3 times Ugh for Janine Jansen?Published: Oct. 23, 2005 at 11:13 PMLast modified: Oct. 23, 2005 at 11:18 PM
Some puritan people reacted negatively to 4 foto’s of Linda Brava. But it is a reality of how some violinists promote themselves, just like Vanessa Mae did. On violin discussion I have asked the questions about the websites of Janine Jansen and Liza Ferschtman www.lizaferschtman.com (I haerd her playing Haydn 1 today by the way). Someone had to puke of it. Here I show you how Janine promotes herself on her website (she is a daughter of a professional organ player of a protestant church). This doesn’t give consternation or negative reactions in Holland, apart of violinist Isabelle van Keulen who found this too sexy promotion for a violinist. She goes farther than those 4 foto’s of Linda Brava. But because of this promotionreality of some violinists (by recordcompanies?, as Isabelle van Keulen supposed), I show you 2 foto’s of her website www.janinejansen.com and the foto on her first cd in white (first cover was in (too?)decent red dress of the same cd):   
ViolinpostcardsPublished: Oct. 25, 2005 at 10:37 AMLast modified: Oct. 25, 2005 at 4:47 PM
I am collecting violinpostcards. Here are some examples. The painter Henri Berssenbrugge (1873-1959) has painted in 1915 the French actor, violinist and singer Odette Myrtil. From this painting they made this postcard. The clothing of violinwoman has changed through the years, compared with L.Brava or J.Jansen. “Hartelijk gefeliciteerd” means “ Hearty Congratulations”   
Beautiful hot violincoxxx and violinphenomenon André RieuPublished: Oct. 27, 2005 at 10:44 AM No screaming teenage girls towards their popidol, but middle-aged woman like him. For example the Dutch Sonja Harper, who is living in Cincinnatti has a website with translated interviews of Rieu in English, http://andrerieufans.com with the USA-concerts: http://andrerieufans.com/concert_news/concerts_usa_2006.htm . He has a lot of entries on his questbook every day from over the whole world on his official website www.andrerieu.com often of his big fan Maria Smits, who gives him a lot of kisses xxxxx at the end of her questbookcontribution. He is the best cd-selling violinist in the States. A friend, who don’t know much about classical music and who also sent a foto in black leather of the cidre of Linda Brava for my weblog, gave me this link: http://www.zelnickmedia.com/PR/pr_037.html Andre Rieu Snares #1 on Billboard Classical Chart With ``The Flying Dutchman''; PBS Pledge Drive Special Powers Strong Debut; December US Arena Tour Sells Out SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2005--Denon Classics is proud to announce that classical music phenomenon Andre Rieu has exploded into the top of the Billboard Classical Chart with his new CD "The Flying Dutchman." Benefiting from the unprecedented ratings of the PBS August Pledge Drive special of the same name, Rieu is set to break through in the US in a huge way this fall. DENON has an extensive marketing campaign in place to support the project and PBS will reprise its airing of "The Flying Dutchman" during the all-important December Pledge Drive period. As a regular in Pollstar Magazine's top touring acts in North America for this year, Rieu and his orchestra will then close 2005 with an extensive western tour of North America beginning in Calgary, Canada, on December 7 and making stops in Seattle, Portland, San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno, Phoenix and three sold-out nights in Los Angeles. In an age of dwindling exposure for classical music on television and sliding album sales, Andre Rieu's evolution in North America in the last three years has been nothing short of remarkable. His musical spectaculars, whether filmed in the sublime landscapes of Tuscany or the lush Dublin countryside, have touched a legion of fans worldwide and have earned the multi-talented conductor, composer and violinist a reputation as a musician and entertainer unparalleled. Also known as "The Waltz King of Europe," the Dutch-born violinist consistently reaches the top tiers of the classical charts since his first recording, and has recently seen all of his Denon Classics releases become bestsellers, each reaching within the top five of Billboard's prestigious Classical charts. With his Holland-based orchestra, Andre Rieu has electrified audiences worldwide with his unique musical vision blending classical and pop elements, rhythm and dance into a charismatic event. It's a vision that has solidified Rieu's reputation as one of the premier live performers. The leading independent classical music label in North America, Denon Classics is a division of the Savoy Label Group, which is the North American unit of Columbia Music Entertainment (formerly Nippon Columbia), the oldest music company in Japan. Newly reorganized and now headed by Chairman Strauss Zelnick, Columbia Music Entertainment has reemerged as a significant force with a stable of newly signed platinum-selling artists.   What are your reactions: Ugh or double ugh. Or like Carey Anderson: Bram, could you stop to put such (hairy) pictures on your weblog, I don’t like Chippendales-types, I want brains no muscles. Or: give me a bowl, because I must puke. Or: although he is no second Oistrackh or Heifetz I like the waltz and English waltz more to dance on than discodance or pogodance, like I did on the danceschool when I was younger. Or: although he is a second ranked violinist, like Linda Brava, he brings a broad public, who never visit a concerthall, in contact with his “light” classical music, like labourers and truck-drivers, because “serious or heavy” classical music is for the elite, although the serious Wiener Philharmoniker also plays ¾ bar-stuff at their new year concert in Vienna, but than it is for strange reasons allowed. Or : ok, beautiful dresses in his orchestra and a good show, but I don’t understand what is so funny about it, because he is laughing too much all the time about nothing. Or: I saw him on television, first I thought it was The Funniest Home Video. Or: I like him in black leather, where I can see some breasthair, like Elvis in 1968, and with a bald head and face-lift.
FIDDLECHICKS.com The world's 1st website dedicated to women on electric violinPublished: Oct. 29, 2005 at 4:25 PMLast modified: Oct. 29, 2005 at 4:34 PM
I found this website, talking about hot violin chicks, in the “violin discussion “about Julia Fischers website, where Jim introduced the term ‘beautiful hot violin chix’. 2 well known names on it for readers of violinist.com are Vanessa Mae and……Linda Brava (Linda Lampenius) All chicks you can find here:    Why there is not a website called: www.fiddlecocks.com ? Are men discriminated here? The best well known electric violinists, I know, are Jerry Goodman (he played in Mahavishnu Orchestra with guitarist John Mac Laughlin on the album Between Nothingness and Eternity, live 1973, soundsamples on: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000252D/qid%3D1130602287/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-2913149-1296959 ) and Jean-Luc Ponty, http://www.ponty.com , from whom I have his late 70-ties cd’s Enigmatic Ocean 1977 and Cosmic Messenger, 1978 listen on this website for soundsamples :http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002I9J/qid%3D1130602090/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-2913149-1296959 . The last LP I got from schoolfriends, because it was more sturdy to play (electric) improvise violin in a band at school than playing written notes on a wooden violin in a classical symfony orchestra. Ponty and Goodman are hairy guys like Jim and André Rieu.  
No violinconcerto of “the black Mozart” Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Siant-GeorgesPublished: Oct. 30, 2005 at 10:06 AM Saturday I was so disappointed I could sink through the ground, let me explain: I visited Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the chamberorchestra of Carla Leurs, who wasn’t playing (but I have heard her with her Swiss pianoplayer, Reto Reichen-Bach. What a professional, what a tone, also people next to me were impressed after her Grieg , Brahms 1 and Prokofiev 2 sonata’ s, I had whizzing ears afterwards, because I sat too close to the players) The reason was that Amsterdam Sinfonietta should play a violinconcerto of the “the black Mozart” Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Siant-Georges. Last weeks I also have heard from this orchestra the first violinconcerto of Haydn, played by Liza Ferschtman and the 5th Mozart, played by Janine Jansen. The reason for that 5th Mozart was that I play with an amateurorchestra this 5th Mozart together with a national competition winner (the father of his violinist is also playing in this amateurorchestra) and an old girl-friend with whom I visited 10 years ago a concert, which I had not seen for a long time would like to join me, so I went to the concerthall for social reasons, because if she didn’t had join me I would have been to my amateurorchestrarehearsal that evening, where we also play this 5th Mozart. But normally I rather like to go to the concerthall for rare violinconcerto’s, like last year Korngold and Barber or a few weeks ago the Chinese violinconcerto Butterfly Lovers of Chen Gang, played by the National Symfhony Orchestra of China from Peking and the Chinese concertmaster as soloist (also Janine Jansen again played with that orchestra the same evening the short piece The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams) . Although I also had played the first Haydn with an amateurorchestra, I had never seen or had heard it in a concerthall and that was the reason also to visit that concerto of Liza Ferschtman and Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Even when a good professional orchestra with a prominent soloist would play the violinconcerto’s of Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn or Tjaikovsky I don’t need to hear it because I have heard this violinconcerto’s too often and have played them too often with amateurorchestra’s. So that was a good reason to visit the concerthall: Amsterdam Sinfonietta would play the violinconcerto in G, opus 8, nr. 9 (1775) from “the black Mozart” Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Siant-Georges and the soloist was Augustin Dumay, who was in the jury of the last Queen Elisabethcompetition in Brussel, I thought. The also played the first stringquartet of Leos Janacek arranged for stringorchestra and an arrangement of the Kreutzersonate of Beethoven for stringorchestra. Beethoven had first this Kreutzersonate dedicated to a black mulatto violinist George Bridgetower. But because of quarrel about a woman Beethoven decided to dedicate this sonata to the French violinist Rudolphe Kreutzer. So perhaps this Bridgetower was a reason for the programming also to play something from a black mulatto composer Joseph Boulogne, who had played with Mozart himself the premiere in Paris of Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for violin/altviolin and it is likely that the forgotten Joseph Boulogne had a great influence on the compositions of Mozart, said the programmbooklet. There are few violinist who have a violinconcerto of this composer on their repertoirelist. There was not so much public in the concerthall on this saturdaynight. No one behind the orchestra, no one on the balcony and the rest of the hall below was filled for ¾. Of course Joseph Boulogne is like Salieri not so well known as a composer as Haydn or Mozart. But after the arranged first stringquartet of Janacek, there was the blow. I saw that for healthreasons Augustin Dumay had cancelled and that Janine Jansen would play… 5th Mozart. I hardly could look at Janine Jansen, I hardly could hear again this Mozart, I understand the hatred and jealousy of Salieri from the movie Amadeus, because of his silly giggles, I hardly could hear or have seen the arranged Kreutzersonate, because in deep disappointment I only stared to the ground. I was freezed during the pause, I could not speak a word, disorientated I leaved the concerthall in the wrong direction. After 2 minutes I realised that my folding bike was parked somewhere else. I drove back in my car without classical music, which I do usually. Also here I drove in the wrong direction because of my very deep depression and disappointment and took another and longer route to go home. Next year is a Mozart-year. So I quess they will play again a lot this 5th violinconcerto of him. Will I hear Joseph Boulogne ever in my live in the concerthall one day or do I have to wait 20 years for that??? Or was this a coincidence because of the the Bridgetower/Kreutzer story and a once in a lifetimechance. I missed? I am still very miserable and down, the next day. It is not normal and perhaps I am to fanatic and strange with my rare violinconcerto’s obsession. It is the same feeling when you are rejected for an audition in an orchestra in which you so eager wants to play or for a professional when you don’t go to the next round in a violincompetition. And it feels when my former girl-friend breaked up with me, but that was in some way a relief, so a less hard emotion. So please, PLEASE,PLEASE, Carla, play Joseph Boulogne again when Augustin Dumay is healthy again with Amsterdam Sinfonietta soon someday. Ok. Now it is time to go to my next rehearsal of my next (chamber)orchestra with unknown Dutch composers. So I must go. Live goes on.
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