I’m stunned by this video – I am literally speechless. I’m glad that I’m still able to type! Let me know what you think of this – is this the future of classical music?
Tag Archives: violin
former OSO concertmaster cd on sale
Amy Schwartz Moretti, former concertmaster of the Floriday Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony, and director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music since 2007, has released a new recording on the Sono Luminous label. Recorded by Skywalker Sound‘s Grammy Award winning engineer Leslie Anne Jones, the recording was also produced by Moretti’s husband, drummer, percussionist, and producer Steve Moretti.
The CD features works by George Gershwin, Jascha Heifetz, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Novacek, Massenet, and Mortiz Moszkowski, which is a duo with violinist Robert McDuffie.
More information is available here.
spring break? as if!
While the Classical Beaver makes it seem like we in the Oregon Symphony are doing keg stands, beer bongs, wet t-shirt competitions, and slathering sunscreen all over each other’s bodies during spring break, it’s often quite different for some of us. Yes, there are some lucky musicians who have scraped together the funds to head for a sunny clime for a much-deserved getaway. But for others there are obligations at home to take care of, and for others of us, like me, there are chances to perform out of town that otherwise would not be possible. Continue reading
tchaikovsky competition announces competitors
The XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition has announced the competitors that have made it through to the first live rounds. The categories are piano, violin, cello and voice.
The most interesting tidbit from the competitors lists is that former Seattle Symphony principal cellist Joshua Roman has made the cut. It will be interesting to see how he does.
It’s also interesting to see how the nationality breakdown works out – here are my findings: Continue reading
shreddin’
There are some clever people in this world. Do you remember the “Yo-Yo Shreds at the Inauguration” vid that popped up on YouTube?
Then there was the “Perlman Shreds Winter”:
Now, there is the “Berliner Philharmoniker Masterclass”:
I was in tears for the last one – it’s a great job of dubbing over what the violist does, here’s the original, before this nefarious violist “ms200shred” got his golden fingers all over it: