tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post5681239938567416186..comments2023-07-22T05:00:18.017-07:00Comments on negativespace: Brick Wallneetzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08328078244870157157noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-32264754192221644702011-04-27T17:32:38.481-07:002011-04-27T17:32:38.481-07:00Thanks for the wonderful viola piece Dive! I loved...Thanks for the wonderful viola piece Dive! I loved it. Delaney needs to hear more of these! Nice to see viola as "first fiddle" for a change!neetzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328078244870157157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-56302955719294805502011-04-25T00:27:37.401-07:002011-04-25T00:27:37.401-07:00Yay you for being so musical as well as a fantasti...Yay you for being so musical as well as a fantastic painter, Neetzy!<br /><br />Ooooh, I love viola! I do hope she sticks with it. Just last night before turning out the light I was listening to my favourite viola piece, Holst's Lyric Movement for Viola and Chamber Orchestra.<br /><br />Here's an address to type into YouTube if you're not familiar with it.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_h3gDwesQ<br />Utterly beautiful.<br />Do you think they can extent their European tour to take in Norwich?<br /><br />Ha! I, too, briefly tried the oboe (for about five minutes). I almost burst my cheeks, Dizzy Gillespie style but couldn't raise so much as a squeak from the cursed thing.<br />My fervently held belief is that nobody plays the oboe. Oboist's mime whilst somebody under their chair squeezes farts from a rat.<br />Having said that, I am a huge fan of baroque oboe and of Heinz Holliger in particular. Bach's Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D minor is sublime.<br />Here's a slightly scrappy amateur version I found on YT (my favourite version is by Hans Peter Westermann on DHM):<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2K9JzKz4jI<br /><br />As for bad jazz guitar, just turn up loud and call it "Free Jazz" and people will love it.divehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938980502783421961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-83387106123900192922011-04-24T15:51:10.549-07:002011-04-24T15:51:10.549-07:00Great story Dive!
My daughter is blessed with a w...Great story Dive!<br /><br />My daughter is blessed with a wonderful, charismatic band director. They were invited to Hawaii based on their performance in San Diego a few years ago. We do not have an "orchestra". No string program, but it is just as well. My daughter's main instrument in flute. She takes viola lessons as well. She was in the countywide Junior Symphony and is trying to make the Youth Symphony. She was invited to the 12 day European tour to Rome,Florence, Tivoli, A town in Switzerland, Germany and Paris. I am going broke but think it will be the experience of a lifetime. (Oh and I briefly tried to play oboe and failed. I took guitar lessons, played in the "jazz band". I was not very good at that either.neetzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328078244870157157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-76691979145092440162011-04-24T00:12:49.865-07:002011-04-24T00:12:49.865-07:00Or the ukulele, it being Hawai'i.
I can't...Or the ukulele, it being Hawai'i.<br /><br />I can't believe the school band gets a trip to Hawai'i! Scrivens! The furthest our school orchestra ever got was Petit-Couronne - our "twin town" in France - and we had to drive there (including the puke-inducing Channel ferry) at our own cost in our own cars. It took us three days to get down there. When we arrived, the Mayor gave us a speech and we played in their town hall to an audience of about twenty. Then we had to sleep in sleeping bags in the local school hall and drive back home the following morning.<br />I quit the orchestra a short while later, after a stand-up row with my music teacher in which she accused me (quite rightly) of "wrecking my musical talent playing jungle music". She was jealous that I was earning more than her salary playing in rock bars and clubs after school. Hee hee.<br />Sheesh! Memories can be so sucky sometimes.divehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938980502783421961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-64578003020550653462011-04-22T17:07:16.029-07:002011-04-22T17:07:16.029-07:00Haha Dive. She's going with her school band. ...Haha Dive. She's going with her school band. I guess I could play the ocarina.neetzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328078244870157157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-68486188433927466652011-04-21T23:36:07.325-07:002011-04-21T23:36:07.325-07:00Teach her that sharing is good by taking her place...Teach her that sharing is good by taking her place on the Hawai'i trip.divehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938980502783421961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-23590873515890229032011-04-21T16:34:17.900-07:002011-04-21T16:34:17.900-07:00Sounds good Dive.
Except all of my money is goi...Sounds good Dive. <br /><br />Except all of my money is going to my daughter's Hawaii trip in November...and her Youth Music Abroad trip the following June...sigh. <br /><br />I told her to remember me when she becomes a wealthy surgeon.neetzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328078244870157157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6912024698482592423.post-79431174223425242542011-04-21T03:25:00.439-07:002011-04-21T03:25:00.439-07:00Neetzy, cancel everything. Fly to Maui. Lay on a b...Neetzy, cancel everything. Fly to Maui. Lay on a beach and drink cocktails until everything gets better.divehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12938980502783421961noreply@blogger.com