Friday night date FROM HELL
Friday night date FROM HELL
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Friday night date FROM HELL
Friday night date FROM HELL
#photography
#music
#classicalmusic
#badviolaplayer
(after a practice session that included a shit ton of recording/playback) I have to remember that what sounds to me like an embarrassing amount of vibrato is actually not-quite-enough vibrato.
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#badviolaplayer
backstage with the gorilla who Believes
intermission
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#orchestra
#sibeliusislife
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#icantcount
Sometimes my brain reacts (overreacts?) with alternate earworms which can include music that I don't even recognize, so I must be composing it on some level.
But the post-show earworms are a musician's walk of shame. It could be hours or days before I'm able to let this go.
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Evah gold rope core 12 days ago and it sounds like I have a beautiful new instrument.
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#classicalmusic
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I just received an unsolicited, very-enthusiastic compliment on the Hindemith (Hindemith!) I was working on and it has just made my day.
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cram-practicing (never a good idea) for a program I don't get to hide in the back of the section for
#yikes
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#bach is not accepting bribes this evening
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#frustration
#classicalmusic
24 hours later, a new verdict: it has improved to the point that a biggest-worst-most-pressing issue has been identified.
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#badviolaplayer
#wtfbach
when I asked google's AI how best I could learn the Allemande from the 3rd cello suite on viola, the first thing it said was "learn it in the cello key and then transpose it to the viola key".
Ex-IT person here: google AI sucks
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#wtfbach
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laissez les bon temps blah blah blah
#badboyfriendsummer
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usually neither a hater nor huge lover of cello, but this Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1...damn
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#cello
#viola
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all ye composers PLEASE reconsider the no-key-signature aesthetic. No one likes to wander through a thicket of accidentals only to realize it's a pretty standard progression in, say, Eb major for like almost a whole page.
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#music
#badviolaplayer