March 2004
March 30, 2004 21:25
Gina and I played at the Red Light Cafe for foodbank fund-raiser. Good crowd, we got the most applause when we answered a request by improvising the Bizet habanera. Am now working on transcribing Led Zeppelin's Kashmir for violin and cello (believe it's in d minor), since Gina played the opening bars to a roaring audience.
March 27, 2004 15:52
Played a wedding today. Nothing unusual, except we couldn't see the bridal party, so the minister's hand simply kept motioning for us to play the Mendelssohn march 4 times until he instructed everyone to join the reception at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.I'm happy, I learned this one page of the Tchaik concerto yesterday, for the first time, and when the roommate of a friend whipped out her digital recorder and said please please play, I said alright....and freaked out, ingoring my owned prepared fingerings. So I whimpered and asked her to erase it, and I played it again, with my head in the right place, and played it perfectly. ME AND MY HEAD.
Speaking of heads, everyone go see "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". With a date.
March 21, 2004 08:08
Itzak conducts New York Phil
March 20, 2004 10:08
How on earth do some of my friends manage to get thirty private students at any one time? How do they advertise?
March 17, 2004 19:39
I need a Robert Schumann beanie baby, cuz I think everyone needs a beanie baby to abuse in the practice room. My friend Gina has a toy goose on top of her piano, and today, whilst struggling with some Gershwin, cried out, "I do not play out of tune Miss Lucy Goose!" and knocked it headlong to the floor.Practicing lots of Bach and Paganini, now that school auditions are finished and I'm busier with orchestra work. I hope to start working on the B minor partita soon, it's the one Bach piece I've never looked at before in my life.
Of course, doing all this unaccompanied violinistic stuff makes me want to take a crack at Ysaye #2, but I know I want to be fluent in more Pag before I do that, the last thing I want to do is struggle with something as cool as "The Furies".
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