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May 17, 2004 at 9:10 PMThey just introduce blogs at work to capture project decisions and design on a tiki-wiki server. So now that I get the concept, I want to write about something interesting, the violin, of course!A little introduction. I'm an amateur violin returnee. This means I'm basically a quitter who fell off the wagon. Nice start, eh? I read about how all of you are such serious violinists and am envious of your drive and determination. But... the important thing is that I'm back. I played violin from age 6 to age 18. Then I went to college, got busy, ... and gave my violin to my sister, where it is now collecting dust and humidity in a closet in Pittsburgh. 9 months ago at church a lady brought in her violin and asked me to play a few bars to a hymn. I had not touched the violin in over 25 years, but when I started playing, that was it. I felt led, compelled, obsessed that I had to get back to my former playing level. I went to my mom's house, pulled out all my old music, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bruch, Zigeunerweisen, stared at the scribbles and markings of my teacher(s) and thought, impossible! How can I ever play those notes? And today, after 4 months of lessons I still cannot play those pieces, but I'm happy that I'm progressing and playing pieces that I played when I was 10. Maybe I can compress the years, recovering 3 years for every one year. But it is eerie playing pieces and studies that you cannot even remember until you start playing it, and then it all seems so familiar, and you are fingering them and bowing naturally what your former teacher wrote rather than what your current teacher marked. And the memories it brings back of my teachers, one of whom is gone from this world already, it's like going back in a time machine. Hope you like my introduction. More on my recent recital later, and my other violin stories. This entry has been archived and is no longer accepting comments. |
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