Playing Bach during a housewarming-party (part2, I got problems with my blog)

October 13, 2005 at 10:35 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

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