August 7, 2005 at 1:35 PM

Well, I'm in Chicago right now.
I haven't been practicing, but, hey! It's the off season, right?
I whipped around some fiddle tunes, as planned, for the ol' relatives, some of whom had never heard of a violin!!! Isn't that AWFUL?! They recognized Orange Blossom Special though, and my Uncle said I played better than Johnny Cash. Yeah right.
I also played Monti's Csardas (my special abridged version for an InstaEncore moment.) but they didn't like that as much. Devil Went Down to Georgia was a surprisingly big hit, since I lost my place and ended up improvising the rest of the piece. Then they begged me to play Long Long Ago (tell me I'm dreaming; they prefer LLA to the Csardas???) and that was it.

Now I've sort of fallen out of my groove, if you know what I mean, but not too much. In a week and a half I shall be a Sophomore in highschool and the Principal Second of myString Ensemble. That's a big improvement from last year, where I was the understudy for the second chair second. ANd I plan on playing Scene de Ballet for all my competitions/college audition tapes/etc., so that's cool. This new season should rock the house!!!

From Sydney Menees
Posted on August 8, 2005 at 1:48 AM

Hey, sounds like it's going pretty well for you! I LOVE Csardas, I was going to perform it, but my mom said that I should play a different piece. My relatives are violin novices, so I guess that was a good idea.

From Evelyn Ray
Posted on August 8, 2005 at 10:37 AM

LOL...you have the same problem I have. I played at our family reunion on Saturday. I'm 54 and I've been studying classical for 2.5 years. I deliberately set out to learn some fiddle tunes, knowing my crowd. They were extremely impressed with the fiddle tunes, but after Offenbach's Barcarolle, someone shouted, "Do Flop Eared Mule!". I feel your pain.

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on August 15, 2005 at 8:04 PM

Oh good...it's nice to know I'm not the only one...but some of my relatives didn't even know what a violin WAS...NO JOKE HERE! I said "Oh, I gotta practice", and my second cousin was like "Violin? Is that *violin like motion* this thing?"
My jaw dropped and I said "Hello?! That is my LIFE!"

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