Happy New Year, Students and Parents!
Bruce and I wish all of you a wonderful 2013, filled with love, health, and more great music.
I am back in the saddle, but I know that a number of you are not back from vacations. Anyone can come for a lesson, but please confirm your time with me first. Looking forward!
We are wishing all of you a season of love, health and great music as we visit my former teacher (and your grand-teacher) Taras Gabora in White Rock, B.C.
The other night we heard a concert with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, play-conducted by “our” Dale Barltrop, the concertmaster and former principal second of the SPCO. He played the Four Seasons both by Vivaldi and Piazzolla. It was sheer joy to hear him again and to watch his unrelenting positive energy.
Hi Students and Parents,
Our performance class dates for Spring 2013 are as follows:
Saturdays at 10 a.m:
Jan. 19, Feb. 16, March 16, April 20, and May 18 (dress rehearsal)
Our recital will be on Friday evening, May 24.
We’ll be going to visit one of your grandteachers, Taras Gabora, from Dec. 20 until
Jan. 3.
Those of you who need access for classes with Claudia should contact Nick, who will staying at the house. His number is 651-428-5670.
Say, please send along the photos you promised at our concert!
I’ve referred many of you to this clip. It is a thing of beauty.
We are looking forward to our semester recital this Friday evening, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. at the house. Please arrive in plenty of time to tune and warm up. Friends and family members are welcome; if you plan to bring all of your cousins, just let me know so we have enough macaroni and cheese to follow.
Please, no jeans or athletic shoes, but otherwise be comfortable.
Some of you are doing extra work on vibrato. I stumbled upon this curious quote from Carl Flesh’s Art of Violin Playing, written in 1924. He refers to vibrato as
“the unconscious merging of the tone with psychic powers slumbering deep within our subconsciousness.”
And we thought they were wiggles…
Please congratulate Alec, Meriel, Imala, and Nygel for their participation in the Mary West Competition on Sunday.
Come hear Alec and Nygel perform at The Mary West Solo Competition Recital on Sunday Nov 11 at 7 pm, Lake Harriet United Methodist Church, 4901 S. Chowen Ave., Minneapolis
At our last performance class I promised to post the Salvatore Sciarrino excerpt I played for you. Nothing else I know sounds like this. I’ll try to gain access to the printed score and maybe one of you will study it. I think we all marvel at it! The violinist is Georg Monch. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m7rDBv-8Tw&feature=BFa&list=PL3A98DD917EE74F06&index=18
Hi, Students and Parents,
Terrific class on Saturday! More on that in my next post. A couple of parents alerted me to upcoming concerts:
I told you about the first one in a post fairly recently. To refresh your memory, I’ve copied it below in part:
[….]concert which will feature two violinist brothers from India. They play in an entirely different way from violinists in our world of western art music. I think it would be terrific for the students to hear this great playing in another fascinating tradition.
The concert will be on Oct. 28, 2012 at HHH Cowles Auditorium. For more info, go to
http://www.imsom.org/welcome.html Advance booking is open now, if you plan to attend the event. http://www.imsom.org/events/20121028.html
Also, The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota
presents its Annual Family Concert
“Franz Schubert & Ugly Duckling”
Featuring the Edina Children’s Choir
James Hawthorne, director
Sunday, October 28, 2012
4:00pm
Dragseth Auditorium
4725 S. View Lane, Edina
FREE Admission for K-12 Students. There are sometimes free adult tickets as well. Please let me know if you are interested, and I’ll ask the mom who sent this email.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS
Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 4:00pm
Concert Program:
Franz Schubert:
“Adagio” in E Major for string quintet
“Shepherd on the Rock” for voice, clarinet, & piano
Variations on “The Trout” for piano & strings
“The Trout” for voice and piano
Jon Deak: The Ugly Ducklings I & II for soprano, bass, and string quartet
(I have played this piece, and it’s a real hoot.)
Daniel Kallman: Three American Folk Songs for children’s choir, string quartet, and piano.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Ave Verum Corpus” for chorus and strings.
Participating Artists:
Maria Jette, soprano
Burt Hara, clarinet
Ariana Kim, violin
Young-Nam Kim, violin
Sabina Thatcher, viola
Tony Ross, cello
William Schrickel, bass
Tim Lovelace, piano
Edina Children’s Choir, James Hawthorne, director
Location:
Dragseth Auditorium
4725 S. View Lane
Edina, MN
Students K-12 Free
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Here are more upcoming CMSM Concerts to mark on your calendars.
December 2, 2012, @ 4:00pm
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul
Guest Violinist: Joseph Silverstein
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet in C Major, K.515 for two violins, two violas, and cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin, BWV 1006
Johannes Brahms: Sextet in G Major, Op. 36 for two violins, two violas, and two cellos
February 24, 2013, @ 4:00pm
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul
Guest Composer: Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller: Trio for oboe, horn, and viola
Gunther Schuller: “Impromptus and Cadenzas” for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, and cello
Igor Stravinsky: “L’histoire du Soldat” for narrator and chamber ensemble
April 14, 2013, @ 4:00pm
Sundin Music Hall
1531 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul
Guest Violist: Nobuko Imai
Luigi Boccherini: Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 No. 5 for two violins, two violas, and cello
Work for Solo Viola, TBD
Johannes Brahms: Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 for two violins, two violas, and cello
May 19, 2013, @ 4:00pm
First Lutheran Church
1555 40th Ave., NE, Columbia Heights
Guest Artists: Indy Trio Reunion
Ariana Kim, violin
Dennis McCafferty, cello
Richard Ratliff, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in A Major, Hob. XV:5
John Berners: “Twinkle Toes” for mixed chamber ensemble
Dimitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
Students may come FREE to all of our concerts with a paid adult ticket.
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Dear Students and Parents,
What a terrific performance class today! As promised, here are the links to the historical, tradition-based examples for Bloch’s Nigun, Monti’s Czardas, and Bacewicz’s Oberek.
http://beta.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/323922/jewish/Niggun-Hachono.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuBnLH4tnJU&feature=related This is a curious film of Polish folk dancers on a ship in 1963 dancing the Oberek.
The Original Village Music from the Upper-Mures Region project discs are out of print, and I can’t find examples on Youtube. But there is interesting background in the editorial review at this Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/New-Patria-Series-Vol-Upper-Mures/dp/B00294MYZY
I’d be happy to lend you my copy. I’d also be glad to lend our copies of the following books. It is a list from the Brain-Pickings website of recommended books about music, emotions, and the brain.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/21/must-read-books-music-emotion-brain/
Happy learning!
Dear Students and Parents,
I know I’m preaching to the choir, but you may be interested in this New York Times article that appeared a couple of days ago:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/early-music-lessons-have-longtime-benefits/?emc=eta1
Since we’re in Back-To-School mode, check out the good Dominant string prices at SHARmusic.com until Oct. 19.
I also wanted to let you know about an upcoming concert which will feature two violinist brothers from India. They play in an entirely different way from violinists in our world of western art music. I think it would be terrific for the students to hear this great playing in another fascinating tradition.
The concert will be on Oct. 28, 2012 at HHH Cowles Auditorium. For more info, go to
http://www.imsom.org/welcome.html
We are all off to a wonderful start. I’ll see you in lessons.
My best,
Lucia
May Violin Class 