October 29, 2004 at 4:44 AM

I am in Liverpool airport at the moment. I just had a first. I already had many weird requests by security personal, at one airport they actually asked me to play at some point. But today they decided I was not allowed to travel with my strings HELLO I need those to play on. They have been persisitent, so all my strings are now in a envelope on the way back home, I have to go buy 2 new sets (one for on the fiddle and one spare set, awaiting the ones to come). And this all happened at the ungodly our of 5 am. You would expect my mood to be less than good right now, but nothing is less true. Ofcourse I gave them a hard time at the security, even spoke to the manager, but they would not let me through with the strings...
However I played yesterday for Maestro Schwarz. It had been 5 years since he had first heard me in Seattle and after I had heard a recent concert, I decided it was time for me to play for him again. I started out with the Tchaikovksy concerto. It was fun, we worked a little bit from a real orchestral point of view, something completely different from what you hear from violinists. He had recently performed it with Joshua Bell, so I got the scoop on what he does and doesn't do. After I played the Tchaikovksy in its entirety, we went on with the Mozart D Major concerto. Mr. Schwarz went behind the piano and we worked a lot on phrasing from the harmonic view instead if the more horizontal line. After that I played some Bach, untill we got kicked out of the Philharmonic. It was awesome!
earlier this week I had a lesson with Mr. Perlman, but I'll write about that another time, cause my plane is boarding.
Greetings from Liverpool!

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