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Just had my first hack-through of the La Campanella<\/em> with my wonderful pianist (Sandra Bleiweiss).\u00c2\u00a0 What a shock the first run-through often can be!\u00c2\u00a0 Carefully thought-out interpretive decisions seem unbelievably stupid and inane.\u00c2\u00a0 Tempos seem either naive or hideously self-conscious.\u00c2\u00a0 Mainly, after the run-through of the Paganini, my thought was “why?!”\u00c2\u00a0 As in, why<\/strong> did I choose to try to play this piece, why<\/strong> can’t I play it, and why<\/strong> do I seem to favor herculean musical labors at the end of a long season, peppered with healthy amounts of public humiliation?<\/p>\n Well, I have a few days to work out the kinks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just had my first hack-through of the La Campanella with my wonderful pianist (Sandra Bleiweiss).\u00c2\u00a0 What a shock the first run-through often can be!\u00c2\u00a0 Carefully thought-out interpretive decisions seem unbelievably stupid and inane.\u00c2\u00a0 Tempos seem either naive or hideously self-conscious.\u00c2\u00a0 Mainly, after the run-through of the Paganini, my thought was “why?!”\u00c2\u00a0 As in, why did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,115,138,22],"tags":[3660],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-music","category-summer-festivals","category-viola","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":657,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/11\/carrie-dennis-plays-paganini-and-schumann\/","url_meta":{"origin":2771,"position":0},"title":"carrie dennis plays paganini and schumann","author":"Charles Noble","date":"January 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Carrie Dennis, the phenomenal violist who has (by the anything but grizzled age of 30!) already been Assistant principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, and was just named as Principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic has a couple videos up on youtube. 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