To make it brief, I sat down on the weekend, sawed at the cello and music came out. The instrument has gone from nemesis and source of self-deprecating humor and frustration to source of enjoyment, I thought. I’m still not good, but now I can say I play the cello, I thought.
Then yesterday I arrived at the music school for my lesson and a flute teacher tells me, “We picked out a song for you to play with the quartet.”
“Oh, that’s nice,” I said. Then I went to the room where I have my lessons and wiped sweat from my brow. I was still wiping when my teacher arrived.
“Oh, I see the flute teacher told you…” he said.
Henry Purcell, the Fairy Queen. A piece from that arranged for recorder quartet, four grown-up beginners (?) playing recorder, me playing the bass line, and someone else playing spinett or something. They have promised me, no audience, only the musicians. But still…
Gah.
I’m so proud of you! Purcell rocks :)
We’ll see. I hadn’t heard of the man until yesterday! I thought it was a brand of battery. Somehow we got on the subject of classical music CDs and my teacher asked me what I had so far. Basically the Anner Bylsma Bach he recommended a long time ago. I told him to make me a list.
I like how the “More” on the post was one line. =) Good luck on your piece, just pretend that it’s a Fear Factor stunt and that if you mess up a note you have to eat a scoop of rat crap or something else vile.
I like how the “More” on the post was one line. =) Good luck on your piece, just pretend that it’s a Fear Factor stunt and that if you mess up a note you have to eat a scoop of rat crap or something else vile.
Dude, if you eat processed food, you eat rat droppings. No, it’d have to be something really unusual…
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Great!! Good luck, Mig!