Dear Santa

December 23, 2007 at 1:25 AM

I have been nice this year (if you take out those times during orchestra practice where my stand partner and I swayed to the music of the flutes a little to enthusiastically while we were counting several bars of rests, or when we organized a "viola only" potluck snack during intermission)...

For Christmas I would like:
1 - Absolutely perfect 100% of the time intonation
2 - Vibrato on the Cing
3 - A better bow-hold
4 - Effortless shifts to the end of the fingerboard
5 - The ability to memorize a piece after reading it through ONCE
6 - Arm vibrato
7 - The original Tertis Model viola
8 - To win the concerto competition

I hope this is not too much to ask :)

Mendy

From Albert Justice
Posted on December 23, 2007 at 3:13 AM

I'm not Santa Claus, but I manage the elves.... I'm going to most of your list is yours by next year.

From Albert Justice
Posted on December 23, 2007 at 3:17 AM

I meant make sure....

From LUIS CLAUDIO MANFIO
Posted on December 23, 2007 at 11:04 PM

Why do you want the original Tertis viola model?

From Peter Kent
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 3:12 AM

Perhaps you might also ask for non-Italian spelling ability (Christa Mas).

From Mendy Smith
Posted on December 24, 2007 at 5:40 AM

What Italian Spelling :-)