pictures and video from last nights concert

June 22, 2006 at 6:00 PM

Well last night was fun. The day started off not so fun...nosebleed 20 minutes into my 3 hour provincial exam that you aren't allowed to leave during, but then it got better.

This is my last week of teaching before summer "vacation" begins. As a special treat last night for the music school's string recital I got to hear and play with many of my students and then last on the program was the academy string orchestra in which I was fortunate to be the soloist playing Summer from the four seasons. I didn't get very long to learn the piece, only a few weeks but I managed to pretty much get it down and memorised with my limited practicing due to my hand injury. I'm working on uploading the video to youtube and can see the first mvt performance by clicking here. The one tricky thing is my A had gone pretty much false and my G string had slipped making playing in tune a challenge in addition I had to wait for the 3 hour marathon recital to finally come to an end with me but it was a lot of fun. A really thoughtful touch was my boss arranged it so that one of my students gave me a boquet at the end of my performance. I'll try and add more pictures later but I put some of the ones that were taken with my camera here.

*edit* update - 2nd and 3rd mvts of the Vivaldi can be viewed here.

From Jasmine Lewis
Posted on June 23, 2006 at 12:36 AM

You are awesome Kelsey...I thought you would like to know that.

From Kelsey Z.
Posted on June 23, 2006 at 3:16 AM

I like your confidence Jasmine, especially since I know you are unable to even hear the performance where you are at the moment. ;)

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on June 24, 2006 at 5:37 AM

I can't hear the audio either. Can you fix that? I love your photos. Your parents look very proud, as they should be. I love the photo of you dancing around the stage in your long gown. It looks like you're having a lot of fun. Congratulations on your graduation and all your achievements!

From Kelsey Z.
Posted on June 24, 2006 at 3:41 PM

Hi Pauline, the audio is just very quiet as it was filmed from quite far away, you just have to turn your speakers up!

Those aren't my parents in the pictures. Liz was my violin teacher from when I was 13 to now and John is a fellow collegue at the music school, in the symphony and also was the conductor of the orchestra!

From Jesus Contreras Espada
Posted on June 24, 2006 at 5:54 PM

I don't have problems with audio as long as xmms or mplayer are not running.
I found the performance brilliant. I wish I can play that well in 20 years!
Congratulations! :)

From Kelsey Z.
Posted on June 24, 2006 at 6:24 PM

Thank you, Jesus! You'll be able to play that well before 20 years comes and goes, I'm sure! hehe I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

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