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Easter performances

April 12, 2006 at 7:31 AM

The past days were colored by Easter and performances for it. I'd never played a piece from Joseph Martin, but in the last days I have played his pieces 5 times. Last sunday was a true Marathon, 4 concerts on one day. I do have to say, my shoulders were protesting quite badly, as was the rest of my body, by the time I got home. Yesterday I had another performance. I also played in all concerts solos; Biber's Passacaglia, slow movements from Bach and once Schindler's List with a pianist that has an incredible gift for improvising (was a lot of fun). He was also at all performances and yesterday I felt much more comfortable to actually improvise myself during solo's in the choir pieces.
The church I played in yesterday was hughe. I think there were at least 700 people and still it felt it was only felt halve. The echo, sound would stay in the air for almost 7 seconds. Great for Biber, but very hard for the enseble. The organ was all the way in the back, so it always felt that we were in front of it. It's a whole other ballgame.

At one this morning I was back. And in the mail I found two things: a first "edition" of the CD that was recorded last January with me playing two things from Schindler's List and the audition material for the auditions at the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Both things kept me awake until about five, then I finally fell asleep. Now four hours later, I am trying to forget violin for a moment; I am going to have my first horseback riding lesson. Just pray I don't fall off and brake something, cause then there will not be much to lay awake about! More about these things later...

Have a beautiful week before Easter.
Carla

Dangerous that horseriding. Safer is running, less changes for major injuries. Perhaps only knee- and ankle-injuries (but that does not effect your arms for playing violin). But for running you have to work harder than horseriding, because than you are the person/animal that is working. And not everbody likes running.
Carla, I always enjoy reading about your adventures. Can you post a sound sample from your new CD? Please tell us more about your audition for the Concertgebouwe. That sounds very impressive.