{"id":4925,"date":"2010-06-28T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2013-02-07T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T04:25:26","slug":"mavi-day-one-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/28\/mavi-day-one-report\/","title":{"rendered":"mavi – day one report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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faculty ensemble rehearsing @ bastyr chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first day (half-day really) of the 20th Max Aronoff Viola Institute went quite well.\u00a0 Heather and I drove up from Tacoma, arriving around 1 p.m. at the Bastyr University campus.\u00a0 We got our stuff moved in, and then I started to warm up for my 2 p.m. dress rehearsal for the Bart\u00f3k that would be performed that evening.\u00a0 I decided that I would only touch some spots that had given myself and Duane some problems in previous rehearsals, so as to leave the performance a bit fresher.\u00a0 It’s also still a bit fatiguing for me to play the concerto twice in a day (especially if the second time is a performance), so this approach made sense to me (and, thankfully, to Duane as well).\u00a0 We worked our spots and then I went upstairs to my room to work on my own sections that needed some individual work.\u00a0 Total rehearsal time w\/ Duane: 15 minutes.\u00a0 Very efficient!<\/p>\n

In the afternoon had one lesson to teach, then some down time for reading and catching up with computer stuff.\u00a0 After a wonderful dinner in the Bastyr cafeteria, I went and got changed for the concert.\u00a0 Since I was last on the program, I decided to listen to part of the first work on the program, then went to a backstage room to warm up again and work a few spots, then came out to listen to the lovely Dohnanyi<\/a> Cello Sonata (played by Richard Treat and Duane Hulbert) and two lovely bon bons for violin and piano – the Havanaise<\/em><\/a> by Saint-Sa\u00ebns and Gershwin’s It Aint’ Necessarily So<\/em> arranged by Heifetz for violin and piano – played by Nancy Roth and Duane Hulbert.<\/p>\n

Finally, the moment of truth came.\u00a0 The Bart\u00f3k Concerto does not have an orchestral introduction, the viola begins alone, accompanied sporadically by low plunks in the left hand of the piano.\u00a0 When playing it for an audition, it doesn’t seem so exposed, because there is no accompanying part.\u00a0 But on stage last night, it felt like pushing off into a void.\u00a0 But soon I was taken up by the increasing demands of the first movement, and it seemed to just fly by without any significant issues, other than me thinking to myself from time to time “this movement sure is LONG!”.\u00a0 The slow movement likewise came and went, and then when we hit the true beginning of the last movement, Duane took a tempo just on the upper side of the range we’d discussed, and I was just thinking ‘here we go!!’, and also was thankful that the last movement was so short and lively.\u00a0 I was very happy with the performance, and of course with Duane’s super piano skills, and was relieved beyond belief that finally I had crossed this major hurdle in my playing life.\u00a0 It is remarkable that it has taken this long for me to get around to playing the entire piece in public (or at all in public), but that’s the way things go sometimes.\u00a0 And there was no better place to do it than at this 20th Anniversary edition of MAVI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first day (half-day really) of the 20th Max Aronoff Viola Institute went quite well.\u00a0 Heather and I drove up from Tacoma, arriving around 1 p.m. at the Bastyr University campus.\u00a0 We got our stuff moved in, and then I started to warm up for my 2 p.m. dress rehearsal for the Bart\u00f3k that would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[148,135,138,22],"tags":[2307,965,277],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appreciations","category-soloists-recitals","category-summer-festivals","category-viola","tag-bartok-viola-concerto","tag-max-aronoff-viola-institute","tag-performance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-1hr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4906,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/25\/mavi-first-rehearsals\/","url_meta":{"origin":4925,"position":0},"title":"mavi – first rehearsals","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"MAVI - the shorthand moniker for the Max Aronoff Viola Institute - the string camp that I helped co-found 20 years ago with University of Puget Sound viola professor Joyce Ram\u00e9e - is starting this coming Sunday up at Bastyr University, so it's time for the pre-festival rehearsing to begin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "soloists & recitals"","block_context":{"text":"soloists & recitals","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/soloists-recitals\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5549,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/new-performances-on-instantencore\/","url_meta":{"origin":4925,"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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