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Tonight was one of those nights where I was intimately reconnected with why I became a performer in the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about people.\u00c2\u00a0 The person the composer, who in their genius rendered their innermost thoughts into sublime music.\u00c2\u00a0 The person the performer, who studied for years to be able to recreate and interpret that sublime music.\u00c2\u00a0 And the person the listener, without whom there would be no point to the other two – without the energy of a rapt audience, an indifferent audience, or even a hostile audience, there would be no reason to perform, other than a selfish one.<\/p>\n

I got to hear some of my dearest friends perform music by Mozart, Palaschko, and a world premiere by Dell Wade, at the first evening of faculty performances at the Max Aronoff Viola Institute<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 All performed with feeling and fluency.\u00c2\u00a0 After intermission came the great Brahms Clarinet Trio, with viola instead of clarinet.\u00c2\u00a0 My wife, Heather, played the cello, and our dear friend and wonderful pianist Sandra Bleiweiss rounded out the trio.\u00c2\u00a0 It was, quite simply, and remarkable experience, perhaps one of my most amazing performance experiences ever.\u00c2\u00a0 Our rehearsals had been somewhat rocky affairs – none of us was particularly happy with how we were playing our parts.\u00c2\u00a0 But we didn’t agonize over it, we just covered what we needed to and moved on to other things (like drinking wine overlooking Puget Sound).\u00c2\u00a0 Our dress rehearsal Sunday morning was quite simply awful.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing felt right, the hall seemed alien and strange to us, and we ended on a dejected note.\u00c2\u00a0 But the performance was something special.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything clicked – the viola and the cello married their sounds together, we played well in-tune.\u00c2\u00a0 Sandra felt our nuances of phrasing as if she were a long-lost triplet – it was uncanny!\u00c2\u00a0 And Brahms, he gave us some of his most jealously guarded secrets that evening.\u00c2\u00a0 His “Ich liebe dich<\/em>” statements in the slow movement.\u00c2\u00a0 The calm, autumnal, haunting stillness of the endings of the first three movements.<\/p>\n

And the energy of the audience was something truly special.\u00c2\u00a0 They hung on every note, not disturbing the intervals between movements, and feed us every step of the way.\u00c2\u00a0 And gave us a wonderful ovation at the end of the performance.<\/p>\n

It was a night that every performer hopes for, but rarely gets to experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight was one of those nights where I was intimately reconnected with why I became a performer in the first place.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s about people.\u00c2\u00a0 The person the composer, who in their genius rendered their innermost thoughts into sublime music.\u00c2\u00a0 The person the performer, who studied for years to be able to recreate and interpret that […]<\/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],"tags":[159,966,965],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-music","category-summer-festivals","tag-concert","tag-faculty","tag-max-aronoff-viola-institute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-IR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/whats-coming-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":2781,"position":0},"title":"what’s coming up","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 24, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Student performers at the 2008 Max Aronoff Viola Institute Photo \u00a9 Charles Noble On Thursday we venture North to Seattle to begin rehearsals for the faculty performances at the 19th edition of the Max Aronoff Viola Institute. \u00a0I co-founded MAVI with my undergrad teacher Joyce Ram\u00e9e, and it's been going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "cello"","block_context":{"text":"cello","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/instruments\/cello\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"CRW_0426","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/CRW_0426-400x266.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5549,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/new-performances-on-instantencore\/","url_meta":{"origin":2781,"position":1},"title":"new performances on instantencore","author":"Charles Noble","date":"November 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a heads up that I've got two new performance recordings up on InstantEncore.com. 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