Back to school :)

March 29, 2006 at 8:22 PM

Hi again,

I've been quite busy these days entertaining some friends and ex-colleagues from Darmstadt (very close to Heidelberg) who came to see me and get a glimpse of south-middle Europe.
We traveled to Slovenia (Ljubljana) on Friday and to Italy (Udine) on Saturday. They were quite amazed that one can visit so many countries in just one weekend! That's why I like Villach.

Here is a nice picture of Udine

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On the other hand I must admit that this visit kept me the whole weekend away from practicing, from friday to sunday.

The rehearsal with the chamber orchestra went fine. After 3 or 4 sessions with Beethoven's first symphony finally I'm able to play almost the whole of all four movements without doing too many errors. Next week it'll be the cemballo concerto 1052. I love that one very much and I really can't wait to play it again SRC="http://www.cmsinfo.org/scripts/fckeditor/editor/skins/office2003/toolbar/button.smiley.gif"
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Today I had my first rehearsal with the music school group. I play first violin together with three young girls, there's a contrabass and a piano player who might be above 15, the rest (2nd and 3rd violin) are kids between 9 and 12.
I think I didn't mention that I'm 28, but I don't care about the age, I just want to learn and give a good impression to the school director, who is also componist and conductor, so that I can enter the music school in September next.
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It's the first time we play together and it sounds bad (awful actually). I hope we improve a lot before the three concerts in the congress center.
I also must practice it seriously. It's also the first time for me in the first violin but this pieces are easy. It's a home made composition (an opera) for the anual representation of the music school. We'll have to play mainly for parents and friends of the kids.

Right after the rehearsal I met Iris for my class. I really enjoyed it (as usual), though I had a bit of a cold, sore throat and small headache.
Iris spent around 15 min. extra with me, I was tired at the end.... too much violin in the last two days and to little practice during the weekend.
Fortunately I got plenty of homework for next week, and now I have time to practice.
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From Jesus Contreras Espada
Posted on March 29, 2006 at 8:42 PM

Sorry for the smileys :(
They worked in my last entry and also in Open Office before posting this one... (?)

From Sydney Menees
Posted on March 30, 2006 at 3:50 PM

Schweet! lol, sorry about that. Ahh, Germany (and Europe for that matter!) is so schön. Spring was a little late here this year, eh? Well, at least in Heidelberg.

From Karin Lin
Posted on March 30, 2006 at 5:13 PM

Love the monkey picture. Oh, how I want to go back to Europe! Soon, soon...

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