Welcome to one of the most active flamenco sites on the Internet. Guests can read most posts but if you want to participate click here to register.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Paco de Lucía, Ron Mitchell, Guy Williams, Linda Elvira, Philip John Lee, Craig Eros, Ben Woods, David Serva and Tom Blackshear who went ahead of us.
We receive 12,200 visitors a month from 200 countries and 1.7 million page impressions a year. To advertise on this site please contact us.
|
|
RE: Building violin no. 1
|
You are logged in as Guest
|
Users viewing this topic: none
|
|
Login | |
|
srshea
Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
|
RE: Building violin no. 1 (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
|
|
|
quote:
Adam, I was in France for some weeks this summer and did some busking with the violin. I liked it. When you´re alone in a city it might be lonely, but when you busk, you´re part of it. Thats next summers project. Drive around in Europe in an old van and play number 1 violin in the streets. Visiting family and friends and sometimes stay in the forest for some days learning new tunes and reading books. Awesome. Building your own violin and taking it to the streets is about as D.I.Y. as you can get without being a straight-up caveman who kills what he eats (although it sounds like you might be thinking about trying that out too!) If you bring a camera along on your adventure, I’d love to see you “blog it.” One of the most amazing, stirring, musical performances, of any kind, that I’ve ever witnessed was seeing a guy parked in front of a church in Krakow, during one of those lonely solo visits to a strange city, TEARING his way through the Art of Fugue. I only had one day in the city and had a long list of stuff I wanted to do and check out, but I was absolutely jaw-on-the-ground transfixed and just stood there watching him for nearly an hour.
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Sep. 4 2012 0:10:39
|
|
srshea
Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
|
RE: Building violin no. 1 (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
|
|
|
quote:
What instrument did he play the art of the fugue? Oh, duh, that’s the most important detail of my anecdote, and I forgot to include it. It was an accordion, which is what really blew my mind. Never seen anyone play such full-on virtuoso material on an accordion, and with full-tilt raging power to boot. Think of the energy that bursts out of the first few Camaron/Paco records, or some other equally speaker-blowing record. It was like that. Contrapunctus 9 was like a freight train tearing through that cobblestoned square. Truly stunning. Yeah, I dig Art of Fugue for organ or sometimes piano (I’ve got a nice one by some old Russian lady, Tatiyana something…) Larger ensemble arrangements don’t appeal to me as much. Heard Andras Schiff play one of my favorite tunes from the 3 Part Inventions on the radio during breakfast today, and my eyes welled up from sheer morning gladness at the brim, as Frost would say. Music! Stuff’s no joke.
|
|
|
REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |
Date Sep. 4 2012 17:26:29
|
|
New Messages |
No New Messages |
Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
Locked w/ New Messages |
Locked w/o New Messages |
|
Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts
|
|
|
Forum Software powered by ASP Playground Advanced Edition 2.0.5
Copyright © 2000 - 2003 ASPPlayground.NET |
0.078125 secs.
|