July 2006

Bram Heemskerk is from Waddinxveen, Netherlands.

5 violinlessons after 25 years

Published: Jul. 5, 2006 at 10:57 AM
Last modified: Jul. 5, 2006 at 11:02 AM

Yesterday I had my last violinlesson from Natasja van Doesburg http://www.vioollessen.nl before the holiday. It was very hot wheather, so I put my head 2 times under a water-tap to cool down. In thoses lessons I learn bowing techniques from Sevcek (green book number 6) and changing from strings Kreisler etudes number 10. Also the difference between forte (to the bridge and pressing with your right hand pointing finger)and piano (from the bridge).
After her holiday we will begin to improve my vibrato.
And for possible auditions or chambermusic evenings from orchestra's I am studying opus 22 nr. 3 Reverie from Henri Vieuxtemps (it is only recorded by Rugerio Ricci and Phillippe Koch, as far as I know) and she is writing the right positions with fingersettings near the notes.
She has a strong gigle after remarks of me, even when I don't try to be funny, but I am sure she will Laugh Out Loud (LOL), if Linda makes a foto of her with the same cow mask like she did with a foto of me.

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foto's from Bruton

Published: Jul. 7, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Last modified: Jul. 7, 2006 at 10:46 AM

I played in May with the amateurorchestra Capita Selecta the violinconcerto of Barber with soloist Jurjen Soeting in Bruton and in the cathedral of Bath in England. Here a foto of me during an rehearsal of the orchestra in the memorial hall (with the names of the death of the 1th and 2th World War of Bruton on the drak wooden wainscot on the wall, as you can see on the first foto)of the highschool of Bruton. It was quite cold, so I played with a coat. Some one else took some pictures, during a free-nonrehearsal day of a statue of Mozart and put it on internet with some other foto's ofhis/her time in Bruton. I have not seen this statue in England, but Mozart also plays violin with his coat on.

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Tetzlaff plays Mozart 2,3,4 and 2th Joachim

Published: Jul. 12, 2006 at 11:06 AM
Last modified: Jul. 12, 2006 at 11:18 AM

Last sunday I was with my parents in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (during the world soccer final, but Holland/Orange was not in the final) and we heard the violinconcerto's 2,3,4 of Mozart. The day before he had played Mozart 1,5 and Symfonia concertante. I new all these 3 violinconcerto's, which I had heard during the semi's of the Elisabeth competition. I have played number 5 with soloist and number 4 during 2 rehearsals (one rehearsal with the soloist). Soon I will play number 3. My parents only know number 4 and hear 2 and 3 for the first time.
As usual I gave Christian Tetzlaff 10 rare violinconcerto's and the sheetmusic/cd of sonates opus 22 and opus 53 of Henri Vieuxtemps. I said that I had seen on internet that he had played Joachim2 opus 11 "Hungarian". I asked whether he had enough chance to play this rarity. That was no problem, he told. 15 times till now and first in 48 minutes and now in 40 minutes. This winter he will play it in ROTTERDAM!!! I will be there to hear this rarity.
I told I also had the sheetmusic of the 1th violinconcerto of Joachim opus3. He also had it, but, just like the 3th his opinion these were second rank and the 2th was the best. He will soon RECORD this 2th violinconcerto of Joseph Joachim!! So after the Naxos-recording of the 3th violinconcerto of Joseph Joachim of Takako Nashazaki and recordings of Aaron Rosand, Rachel Barton and Elmar Oliveira of the 2th Joachim, he will make the 4th version of this concerto on cd. It is a pity that no one had recorded the 1th violinconcerto of Joseph Joachim (opus 3), so you could compare all 3 violinconcerto's of Joseph Joachim, just like you can compare all 5 Mozartconcerto's, all recorded by Tetzlaff.

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What must I say to the recent widow at my desk in September?

Published: Jul. 14, 2006 at 12:46 PM
The last 3 rehearsal before the summer in one of my amateurorchestra I sat alone at my desk. A woman in her 50-ies who sits normally next to me suddenly got her husband, a lawyer of 56, on the telephone. He rang her on the phone in his car next to the highway to tell her that he wanted to cancel an appointment with a client, because he did not feel well. The next time she rang him back, she got already someone of the ambulance on the phone, told someone of the orchestra. He had a stroke in the brain and some days later he dies. He left 3 children, the youngest 17, still living at home. I wrote her a colondolatoryletter.
Life can be hard and unfair. The Dutch queen Beatrix had both parents till she was 65 and than within 2 years they were gone (princess Juliana and the German prince Bernhard). A friend of mine has only vague foto’s and no memories of his parents, because they died when he was 2. I am a lucky guy of 42 who still has both parents (healthy and still together). But these 3 children now misses their father. Okay, a bit heavy subject, but it is part of life and part of musiclife. 20 years ago I came in a student-orchestra and short before a student of that orchestra had died, but I had not known him.
I hope I will see my deskmate in September again, but I can’t ask: “How was your holiday?”

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Mozartkugeln and Mozarttaler in Wien

Published: Jul. 28, 2006 at 11:07 AM
Last modified: Jul. 28, 2006 at 11:08 AM

For the holiday I was in Wien and they had Mozartkugeln and a sort of flat Mozartkugeln, called: Mozarttaler.

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I met Mozart and new girl-friend in Wien + a new car in Budapest

Published: Jul. 31, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Last modified: Jul. 31, 2006 at 11:03 AM

Hi. On holiday I met Mozart himself who was promoting his Kugeln. Also I met my new girl-friend.

I think Andre Rieu would like this foto of the Walseking of the golden statue of Johann Strauss. It was very difficult to take a foto without Japanese or Amerikan tourists who were swarming around this foto-populair statue. More statues of composers later.

In Budapest I first sat in a Trabant in a park with statues from the communist period. Later on I drove in a real Trabant from the owner of a bar behind a railwaystation near the Balatonlake

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