Thursday, August 24, 2006
This is really the first actual writing of this blog for me. I have written a few entries over the summer that I will add as a musical summer overview...but this is the first live writing.
I would like to use this blog to write about what's going on in my life musically and creatively.
So----what's going on musically and creatively this week?
Well, I played two weddings last weekend. Saturday I played a flute, violin and cello trio at a wedding in Sausalito at the beautiful Alta Mira Hotel, which is kind of in the side of a huge hill overlooking the ocean. It was windy! I was very glad that I had my scarf for this one. We played the Notre Dame fight song as a recessional. That was interesting! I met a new flute player named Gayle and the violinist was Mary Tanios from my string quartet. It was relatively painless and fun, as weddings go. The setting was gorgeous!
On Sunday, I played with a viola, flute, violin and cello group at another wedding. The violinist, David Reffkin, is a ragtime specialist that I have just recently met. He loves obscure music from the twenties. With David, we always do alot of sight reading and that means getting lost sometimes...there are tons of repeats and road maps in the music and I suspect that some of it might not even work really. David takes chances with the music and that is a little scary but also more fun than playing standard wedding music that everyone knows and has played a million times. So---did I get lost? Yes! A few times. But we had alot of fun. This wedding was at the Blackhawk Country Club in Danville. We played on a big porch that was beside a lake and surrounded by lovely rolling amber colored hills. On the far side of the lake was a golf course. I was a little concerned that a long foul ball might hit one of us in the head---but it didn't.
My next big musical adventure will be my audition for the Marin Symphony. Will I get in? Who knows! There are lots of great players around, and you never know who will be auditioning for this kind of a group. But I need to get going and start practicing! In fact, I should be practicing right now! For this audition, on September 12th, I will have to play excerpts from the symphonic literature and a solo piece of my choice, taken from the standard cello concerto repertoire. Also, there will be sight reading. (Ugh!)
This is really the first actual writing of this blog for me. I have written a few entries over the summer that I will add as a musical summer overview...but this is the first live writing.
I would like to use this blog to write about what's going on in my life musically and creatively.
So----what's going on musically and creatively this week?
Well, I played two weddings last weekend. Saturday I played a flute, violin and cello trio at a wedding in Sausalito at the beautiful Alta Mira Hotel, which is kind of in the side of a huge hill overlooking the ocean. It was windy! I was very glad that I had my scarf for this one. We played the Notre Dame fight song as a recessional. That was interesting! I met a new flute player named Gayle and the violinist was Mary Tanios from my string quartet. It was relatively painless and fun, as weddings go. The setting was gorgeous!
On Sunday, I played with a viola, flute, violin and cello group at another wedding. The violinist, David Reffkin, is a ragtime specialist that I have just recently met. He loves obscure music from the twenties. With David, we always do alot of sight reading and that means getting lost sometimes...there are tons of repeats and road maps in the music and I suspect that some of it might not even work really. David takes chances with the music and that is a little scary but also more fun than playing standard wedding music that everyone knows and has played a million times. So---did I get lost? Yes! A few times. But we had alot of fun. This wedding was at the Blackhawk Country Club in Danville. We played on a big porch that was beside a lake and surrounded by lovely rolling amber colored hills. On the far side of the lake was a golf course. I was a little concerned that a long foul ball might hit one of us in the head---but it didn't.
My next big musical adventure will be my audition for the Marin Symphony. Will I get in? Who knows! There are lots of great players around, and you never know who will be auditioning for this kind of a group. But I need to get going and start practicing! In fact, I should be practicing right now! For this audition, on September 12th, I will have to play excerpts from the symphonic literature and a solo piece of my choice, taken from the standard cello concerto repertoire. Also, there will be sight reading. (Ugh!)
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