I just love this:
Friedrich Curschmann: Blumengruß
Sylvia Schwartz (dressed as Carmen), soprano
Annette Dasch (dressed as Brünnhilde), soprano
Daniela Fally (dressed as Adele), soprano
Katrin Dasch, piano
If you know me, you know I’m not really a dance person most of the time. But this? Made me laugh. So on to the blog it goes.
I know some will relate to this. Me? No more, no more ….
Okay … just have to post this. Because I usually DO think of ukelele when I think of Mozart. (Thanks patti with an i and, from what you wrote, Ted S. who must have brought it to your attention …?)
Rarely do we get an oboe video quite like this! Many thanks to Joan H. for sending me a link to the Bosque Bassoon site!
Yes, there is a reason to play viola after all! ;-)
Marco Roberto Sousa Jr. loves playing the viola — even more so now that the stringed instrument may have saved his life.
Eighth-grader Marco, 13, was walking home from Hastings Middle School on Thursday when he was hit by an SUV. Luckily for him, the viola took the worst of the blow, its hardshell plastic case serving as a cushion to spare Marco from more serious injury. As it was, he sustained a fractured hip, a concussion and facial cuts and bruises in the accident.
I’m playing Mary Poppins for two weeks. It’s all a bit surreal, since my mother died on Monday and our first rehearsal was Monday, but that’s the life of a musician: we don’t get to take a rehearsal off and still play the job. If we don’t play the job we don’t get paid. I love my work, and I wouldn’t trade it, but this is one of the things that can cause difficulties.
That being said, this post isn’t about that, really. (I guess I just felt like whining …?!) It’s more about that whole “Spoonful of Sugar” thing Mary talks about. Seems to me they need to change the words.
… and who knew that “aspoonful” was one word, eh?
Fun and clever …
Just a little FYI for you all (because a student and I just had a bit of a laugh about this):
Question: Did you eat the last cookie?
Answer: Maybe.
In this instance the answer means yes.
Question: Did you practice that?
Answer: Maybe.
In this instance the answer means no.
That is all. You are welcome.
Beethoven Violin Concerto, last movement. Sort of. The video is just a snippet from the movie “La Belle Verte”. This particular YouTube video is overdubbed in Russian. The actual movie is in French.
If you want to see even more (and hear it in French with English subtitles) there’s this:
I’m interested in music, but not the music theory, but you don’t have to think to play arpeggios. You want to play a violin, you have only one solution, to play in the conservatory you need to have a power. Power, Power. Power!
A short bit of the synopsis: As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible — Earth.
We aren’t doing Rite this week … it’s Petrushka for Symphony Silicon Valley … but I wish I owned this shirt — I’d wear it to work. (Well, maybe. These days I rarely wear t-shirts.)
You can purchase yours here.
Enjoy! (And thanks to Bob Hubbard for this one!)
Yes … plural.
Very fun. (It appears La Api is easier to do this with than Mozart!)
I guess I’m in a Bill Douglas mood right now …
Here’s the info given:
Bill Douglas and the Boulder Bassoon Band plays Bill’s composition ‘Banana’, framed by Sonny Rollin’s ‘St. Thomas’, in a 1985 concert. Near the end, the band performs Bill’s ‘Vocal Rhythm Etude #5′ (formerly known as ‘Rock Etude #17′). The other members of the band are John Steinmetz, Dan Young, Bruce Orr, Jim Cochrane, Steve Braunstein, and Geoff Johns (percussion).
