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Mar 1, 2009 8:39 am
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Great! Viola recitals need more stuff like this. It'd break up all the early 20th century English stuff ;) Beautiful, elegant playing, too. Scott ...
Bravo - excellent work, Kathryn! You open our ears and minds to the Eastern music that we're just beginning to visit on today' concert platforms. Since Michael...
Very convincing Chinese idiom in the Grasslands piece. Makes the viola sound very much like a matou qin (morin huur). To my shame I didn't know the name Zhao...
What type of strings go best on a viola? I just started playing in october. I bought a new viola and but on obligato but I find that they are a little spongy...
... ********* Hi Marcia, My playing days now over, the 1781 J.B.Guad viola which I owned for 45 years, has been acquired by a foundation in Norway for the...
Hi Daniel, I suggest that you do the following if you can... 1. Talk to your viola teacher about it - they will have a good opinion worth hearing, on the...
David Carpenter is a fantastic player. There is a reason why he won the Naumburg, the Rolex and the Philadelphia Orchestra competitions. It is also...
Eric Chapman
chapmanviolins@...
Mar 2, 2009 4:41 am
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Dear All, I have heard that Raphael Hillyer, the Juilliard Quartet's founding violist who is now in his 90s, had a cameo appearance near the end of the 2006...
Dear Viola List, I wanted to let you know about Michele LeCourse's New CD "Chocolates"; Music for viola and piano by James Grant recently released on MSR...
If anyone on this list is in the Seattle area this weekend, you may be interested in going to a concert of my Latin group Wesito & Friends on Sunday. This is...
Dear List, I don't even have to hear Michelle's new recording to tell you it's a must-hear. I went to school with her, first at the Interlochen Arts Academy...
Hi - I'm the cellist of the Colorado Quartet and we run a 2-week string quartet camp (Soundfest) in Massachusetts on Cape Cod, June 20-July 3. We need VIOLISTS...
Good advice Christopher! I just put a new set of Obligatos on my viola, replacing Dominants. I never was happy with the sound I got from the Dominants even...
Hi Diane, Oh dear... rosin and strings mentioned in the one e-mail! Pray that the Great Nardini doesn't read this... Be afraid... be very afraid. But for the...
Thanks for letting us know about this CD! I premiered James Grant's Phases of Courtship for viola and orchestra as part of a consortium of violists and...
Eve + Jesko Abraham
evejesko@...
Mar 4, 2009 11:41 am
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HAHAHAHAAAAAA! I know where you LIVE!!! Actually, Ann Roggen is much more dangerous than I with regard to this subject. Nardini (not so great) ...
Uh Oh!!! WHAT WAS I THINKING????!!!! I'm going to say the R word again....I got Kaplan Dark, which is supposed to not have so much dust, and their advertising...
At conradstrings.com, if you click on strings then viola, it comes up with an "I'm sorry, nothing found" page. = = = George "jorge" Tate Violist, Halcyon...
Oh, duh, that was where my friend got hers last year. I meant concordmusic.com - we don't know what happened to the other place. Sorry about the error! Diane ...
Try Quinnviolins.com for an even more competitive price on strings. And tell Chris I "sent" you. :-) = = = George "jorge" Tate Violist, Halcyon String...
... Hi, Diane. I did look at your website, and there is a student I'd like to recommend, an 8th grade violist who will be a rising high school Freshman this...
John Howell
John.Howell@...
Mar 5, 2009 3:36 am
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this probably just means that the audition date has come and gone, and that there were fewer violists who auditioned this year, for whatever reasons. I often...
Dear Kathryn and friends on the List ‹ my very first post! Be gentle. My name is James Grant, and I'm the composer of the music on Michelle LaCourse's new...
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