Eee-hah!

June 4, 2007 at 4:29 AM

A surprising discovery.

So I was just on the phone with one of my old violin teachers, and it turns out that his teacher, Sergiu Luca, studied briefly with George Enescu! I'm a direct musical descendant of Enescu! Yippeeeeee!

From Sydney Menees
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 4:40 AM

Cool!

From Yixi Zhang
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 5:30 AM

Wow! I really hope Enescu passed his gazillion slides down to his students.

From Emily Grossman
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 8:38 AM

So you're in love with your great grandfather then. Eww!

From Maura Gerety
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 1:14 PM

Emily, I never said I was in love with him....

From Anne Horvath
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 2:08 PM

So, when are we going to hear about your recital?

From Maura Gerety
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 2:39 PM

Cripes, I totally forgot. (Az isten szerelmére!) It went quite well except for the first page of my Wieniawski--I hit those awkward chords terribly out of tune (which never happened in rehearsal) and that threw me off for the whole rest of the page. Ugh. The rest of it went great though--kind of went on "technique autopilot" and the music just played itself. There were these two Hungarian ladies in the audience (one of whom is my "adopted grandmother", but that's a story for another day) and they said that when I played Bartók's "Hungarian Folk Songs" they felt like they were back home again. :-) The other thing that *everybody* said to me afterwards was "I've never heard Zigeunerweisen played so FAST!!" LOL

From Maura Gerety
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 2:44 PM

Yixi--hmm, so maybe THAT's where I suddenly got all my cool slides in the Debussy sonata last week...

From Albert Justice
Posted on June 4, 2007 at 8:37 PM

This Eee-Hah thing--I feel I've been a bad influence on you. Now you can reconstitute your standards now that you have a lineage with which to begin. ;)

Whoah there bow hair! .

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