December 2007

IGUDESMAN & JOO on JANINE'S CHAMBERMUSIC FESTIVAL

December 30, 2007 11:50

After a normal concert of JANINE JANSEN during her JANINE'S CHAMBERMUSIC FESTIVAL between 2th Christmas day and 30 december

Bartók Contrasten, for violin, klarinet and piano
Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque nr. 1
Sjostakovitsj Strijkkwartet nr. 7
Mendelssohn Pianotrio op. 49
Dohnányi Sextet (THIS PIECE SHE HAD RECORDED FOR NAXOS:
DOHNANYI: Serenade for String Trio / Sextet Catalogue No: 8.557153

I and a friend also visit a concert thereafter of IGUDESMAN & JOO . I think a lot of violinist.com readers will also like this like Gilles Apap. It is a big You tube hit.
Here RACHMANINOV with WOODEN CHORDS

MOZART BOND

Different parts of their show:

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63 HOARFROST AND SKATING PHOTO'S + 5KM skating oval FLEVONICE

December 27, 2007 05:14

HERE MUCH MORE PHOTO'S, 63OF HOARFROST AND SKATING on nature-ice:

Most skating ovals in the world are 400 meter or shorter, but since 2 weeks we have in Holland a skating oval of 5000 meter, 5 KM!!!, because we miss strong winters the last years, because of climat changes. It is called FLEVONICE . FLEVO IN ICE (English internet influence). Flevoland is a part of the Netherlands below sea level and they pump the water over a dike.
Here some picture of this artificial-ice oval of 5km in FLEVONICE and my body-protection, because you can fall hard on the ice and skates are sharp as knives and I also want to play violin without injuries:

A lot of bodyprotectors for head, shoulders(from ice-hockey), elbows, knee's, hips and underback (black rubber piece in my black dress),cut-proof socks and underleg-protectors against other skates hitting my legs.

safety first

The result of all the protection

The track photografhed from a plane.

Much more photo's of
FLEVONICE 25 DECEMBER 36 photo's
FLEVONICE 15 DECEMBER(FIRST DAY) 8 photo's
FLEVONICE 1 DECEMBER (STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION) 20 photo's

Construction workers are building the 5 km track.

skating on 25 december on the track while it is 5 °Celcius.

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MOVING MUSICIANS

December 26, 2007 06:11

It is a pity that you can not upload Gif-files, but only jpg-files. So if you want to see these (jpg)pictures move here is the website of an amateurorchestra in the Netherlands
MOVING MUSICIANS

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On 22-12 we dreamed of a white Christmas

December 25, 2007 18:36

Last saturday 22-12-07 all trees were covered with hoarfrost. But now temperatures are above 0 Celsius, so we keep on dreaming of a white Christmas.

We also had some days ice, so everybody was iceskating

The last photo is from 11 years ago.
HERE MUCH MORE PHOTO'S, 63!! OF HOARFROST AND SKATING:
HOARFROST AND SKATING

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photo's of the concert of 5th Vieuxtemps with YVONNE SMEULERS

December 24, 2007 12:13

The cd of Czech composers of YVONNE SMEULERS and SANDER SITTIG with their autograph's.

Here some photo's of the concert of 5th Vieuxtemps with YVONNE SMEULERS

Addi Kubbinga made the sketch of the soloist.

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'Caprice 24' N Paganini on saxophone, trumpet, cello, guitar

December 13, 2007 09:53

Raaf Hekkema saxophone:

Alison Balsom trumpet:

Wells Cunningham cello:

Unknown Asian guitar player guitar:

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5 th violinconcerto of HENRI VIEUXTEMPS with YVONNE SMEULERS

December 2, 2007 08:20

I am so happy. After I got the 1th celloconcerto of Henri Vieuxtemps on the desk of an amateurorchestra, I found out that the music library of the FASO (Federation of Amateur Strind and Symphony Orchestra's)had lent the 5th violinconcerto of VIEUXTEMPS to an amateurorchestra in The Netherlands. I sent an email to that library and found out that Van Wassenaer Ensemble in my neighboorhood would play that 5 th violinconcerto of HENRI VIEUXTEMPS with YVONNE SMEULERS. So after some attempts to get this piece (or one of the other 7 violinconcerto's of Vieuxtemps) played, which all failed, here was a chance. It was no problem to play with this orchestra and I even did not need to do audition. During the first rehearsal with the soloist YVONNE SMEULERS her friend (who plays professional piano) SANDER SITTIG, who know my weblog, because the works with more violionists. He always was surprised how I got all those different pictures. (quite easy: by googling images of names). I gave her a Vieux Temps beer. She must laugh about it, but said she did not drink alcohol (serious girl)
YVONNE SMEULERS played great during the concert.

In the coffee-break after the concert, I gave her the other concerts of VIEUXTEMPS, which she don't know and a Vieuxtemps-glass, which look like it was filled with beer, but it was candlewax, so she can burn this Vieuxtemps-candle, while learning more about the composer Vieuxtemps. Of course during and after the concert I wear my VIEUXTEMPS T-shirt.
The conductor said to me, while I was giving presents to YVONNE SMEULERS : have you said that YVONNE SMEULERS played the 5th VIEUXTEMPS very good, but (silly me) I forget to say that. So I admitted the remark of the conductor. Later I heard the concert several times in my car, because I made a bad quality recording on cassette, so I still can listen to the concert again and YVONNE SMEULERS made no mistakes. But we will play 2 more times with her again after 2 weeks!!

SANDER SITTIG and YVONNE SMEULERS (on the right is a violinfriend of another amateurorchestra who liked the playing of YVONNE SMEULERS very much and was happy that I invited him for this concert so he could hear it on stage instead of on cd. He listened to it from a few meters form the soloist) I, on the left, bought the new cd of SANDER SITTIG and YVONNE SMEULERS with Czech music and they wrote their autograph on it. On the website of YVONNE SMEULERS you can hear a fragment of this cd.