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CARLA LEURS + MAARTEN VAN VEEN in the Concertgebouw

September 7, 2006 at 11:28 AM

After 2 1/2 hours of work I went to the Concertgebouw for a free entrance lunchconcert of 1/2 hour of 2 Violinist.com bloggers Carla Leurs and Maarten van Veen. The foto's short after the concert failed an were too dark. I asked someone after the concert to make a foto of Carla and me. I forget to laugh and I bent my knees and she stood on her toes. It was a very original programm and well played. Carla plays something virtuoso and a baby began to cry, so father and child leave the full concerthall. Maarten van Veen drummed with his hands on the piano during a virtuoso piece of Piazzolla, as encore, and his sheet music fell down backwards in the piano. So the girl who turned the pages stood up and put his desk upricht on the piano. Carla had found this rare music searching in a sheetpapershop Broekmans and van Poppel, for example an early piece of Bartok he wrote when he was in love. I forget to make a foto of the pianist. After the concert I made in The Hague some copies of pieces of Vieuxtemps and the violinconcerto of Mjaiskovsky. In the evening I played with an amateurorchestra 5th Tjsaikovsky. Busy day.

I was bad clothed with that T-shirt. A blouse with short sleeves or a poloshirt would be better.




best wishes to you and carla
Aah! You know the Myaskovsky concerto! I have that piece (the result of a lot of rooting around in musty libraries!) I love it and can't wait to have enough spare time to learn it!
Yay, Carla and Maarten! Thanks, Bram for telling us about it and posting photos. I almost feel like I was there. Your dark photo may be salvageable. There is probably a lot there that you can't see, and Photoshop can work wonders with this problem. If you're interested, please write to me, and I can help.
I asked a colleague, who has photoshopping on his computer, but he told that it was difficult to get that dark photo better. He thought it would become grey. But perhaps you can copy and paste this photo from my weblog, Pauline, and improve the quality of it.
Furthermore I was bad clothed with that T-shirt. A blouse with short sleeves or a poloshirt would be better.
Because I mostly has few time for my blogs, because I write them in my lunch, I forget to tell that Maarten van Veen drummed with his hands on the piano during a virtuoso piece of Piazzolla, as encore, and his sheet music fell down backwards in the piano. So the girl who turned the pages stood up and put his desk upricht on the piano. Carla had found this rare music searching in a sheetpapershop Broekmans and van Poppel, for example an early piece of Bartok he wrote when he was in love.