November 15, 2005 at 6:29 AM

November 14 was my birthday, and it was good. I got a cake and some sweet and some phone calls and tones of people wishing me a Happy Birthday, even from people I completely didn't expect it from.

Last Thursday my College Orchestra had its first official performance and it went really well. We opened the concert with Night on Bald Mountain and then we did the Brahms Violin Concerto...it was amazing. Our soloist was the concerto competition winner from last year, and for his encore he played a brilliant rendition of Ernsts Last Rose of Summer. Interestingly enough, he spent one semester at Juillard, hated it, and then came to Luther. He is an amazing violinist, he started when he was 11 and was playing Paganinni Caprices by the time he was 14, he also won many competitions and learned the freakin Bruch in a WEEK and then went on to win a competition with it!! Then we had an intermission and then played the Vaughn Williams Variants on a Theme from Dives and Lazarus, and we ended the concert with William Waltons Henry V Suite. Everything went really well and we had a much larger than normal audience.

Well, that's it for now, I have a viola lesson tomorrow and frankly...I haven't practiced viola for a week, but I have gotten a lot of quality time in on violin. On Sunday I spend over two hours on technique alone, I spent about 1.5 hours on Saturday on technique as well. I have discovered that it's really hard to go from playing violin to viola and vice versa, my hand always seems to hurt, but I guess I just need to get more aquainted with switching between the 2 instruments. I love practicing violin so much more though, on Saturday and Sunday practice went so amazingly well, probably becaue of all the time spent on technique.

From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 15, 2005 at 11:07 AM

Happy birthday, Andrew!

From Karin Lin
Posted on November 15, 2005 at 5:47 PM

Happy belated birthday! Did you know you share it with Aaron Copeland? I learned that on my classical radio station yesterday. :)

From Andrew Paa
Posted on November 15, 2005 at 6:54 PM

Yes actually I did, he was born November 14, 1900 wasn't he. Ah, 8th grade humanities, basically the only thing I remeber is my little project about Copland.

From Emily Grossman
Posted on November 16, 2005 at 4:40 AM

hmm... any leftover cake?

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