December 14, 2005 at 3:49 PM

The church orchestra performance last Sunday went well, although it was weird for me. I got nervous towards the end of each of the two string quartet pieces. I started out focused and confident, and then as the piece progressed, it was like "who are you trying to fool? You can't really play the violin" thoughts crept into my psyche. Hmmmm... I wonder what that is all about. I am normally a little overthetop with good self esteem. We received many great comments afterwards, so I think we must have pulled it off.

Our one rehearsal for the Christmas Eve service was last night. A small representation of our orchestra is accompanying the choir in Gloria Deo. Many orchestra members have family commitments and cannot play that evening. The strings are quite "exposed" in this piece - our director tends to normally choose works that are brass heavy, so this is a little unusual. I plowed through it the best I could last night and afterwards received a compliment on how great the strings sounded. Since that would be me on second violin and one first violinist, the comment made me feel like a real musician :)

muggle violino madre

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