Jun 7
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) - Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20, III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo. Performed by L'Archibudelli & Smithsonian Chamber Players on period instruments.
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) - Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20, III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo. Performed by L'Archibudelli & Smithsonian Chamber Players on period instruments.
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Alright… to begin… I wasn’t even going to improvise with this today. I was going to do it tomorrow.
I put Lestat’s later words with it. Which makes it harder. More words, less space.
Anyway, I thought I’d just try improvising since I have a real (albeit rubbish) piano on Thursdays.
The way I improvise is I just have to feel it and GO. If I have to restart, for whatever reason, it’ll probably be worse, as I’ll start to think.
But this one… I just wanted it to be A Great Improvisation. I wanted to feel it myself - to do Nicolas justice.
But I’m trying to do these at 8am, with a 15 minute time limit, the fear of people walking past, in a room already 30 degrees and… worst of all WITH MY MIND.
I suppose, in order to learn an instrument… unless you have pushy parents… which I didn’t… perhaps you have to have a certain kind of a mind… Or maybe I speak only for my own mind… it’s not that it objects to freedom… but it has to analyse and say NO - IT MUST BE MORE PERFECT! DO IT AGAIN! If your mind doesn’t have that… Lucky you, honestly, as it’s pants.
Anyway, in what I do, I don’t use that bit of my brain. I turn it off. OFF! Bye Bye judgment.
But if it snaps back on when I didn’t tell it to, like a faulty light, this is what happens.
So, I share: I played this 3 times. I feel I did quite well in the sense that at least I didn’t restart a thousand times - each of the three is a first take improvisation.
Unfortunately, I despise all three of them. But I despise them equally.
So I am going to share them all anyway.
Maybe tomorrow I will try to play for this again, but just on violin or violins. I think if I am going to attempt to do it justice, I need to set about it in a different way as I think sitting at any keyboard might now make me just freeze and panic every time.
But today - an insight into my mind!
Don’t do this! Just be free! And it’s better when you’re free too, HAHAHA! But enjoy these three terrible! Tell which you find worst if you like!
Romantic Asexual Violinist/Dancer/Singer Moodboard for Anonymous by Mod Taylor <3
It’s really hard to play violin sitting on a soft, sinking bed. I never realised how hard.
This is for Daniel & Nicolas. There isn’t a quote, as I think there doesn’t exist a quote… but there are some aspects of self they share (more notably book-Daniel to be fair) & that’s what I thought about.
For fun… here this is with just the one violin line too. It’s better, isn’t it 😂💀. Oh well!!
All my love belongs to you. You are its keeper. A veil will now forever separate our union. But it is a thin veil… and I am always on the other side, my face pressed up against your longing.
Giacomo Facco (1676-1753) - Concerto a cinque for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo in C-Major, Op. 1 No. 7, III. Allegro. Performed by Federico Guglielmo, violin, and Anibal E. Cetrangolo/Ensemble Albalogna on period instruments.
