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May 10 violin recital

May 10th, 2008  |  Published in General updates, Music

The violin recital went very well today. As well as Ben and Esther playing their own pieces, Ben was asked yesterday if he’d accompany a student playing the first movement of the Bach Double Violin Concerto. Their teacher was supposed to accompany her but he’s been having back trouble so he asked Ben to step in. Ben agreed and did very well considering he had less than 24 hours to prepare and he’d never played the piece before.

Here are camera video recordings of Ben playing the last movement of the Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto and Esther playing the last movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto (these are the same pieces they played last week at Looptopia). Steve will have audio recordings of these performances on his music page soon.

Ben - Tschaikovsky Esther - Beethoven
Tschaikovsky Beethoven

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May 5, 2008
Spring 2008

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Today the weather was gorgeous. I went out with my camera - I wanted to take photos while the blossom was still out. These are the ones I liked best…


May 3, 2008
Looptopia performances

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Here are camera video recordings of Ben playing the last movement of the Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto, Esther playing the last movement of the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Windy City String Ensemble (WCSE) playing the last movement of the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
In the WCSE recording Ben is at the front playing the solo that [...]


May 2, 2008
Looptopia 2008

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The Windy City String Ensemble WCSE) - the string group my children play in - is performing at Looptopia tonight. Looptopia is an annual festival in downtown Chicago with festivities all night long.
The WCSE is performing from 7:30 until 9 at the Chicago Temple. The whole ensemble plays from 7:45-8:30 with soloists performing with [...]


May 2, 2008
The first infusion went ok

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I was a little nervous this morning but the infusion went fine once they had succeeded in setting up the IV. On my way to the doctor’s office I remembered I tend to have trouble with those and sure enough, that happened again today.
After the two nurses in the doctor’s office had three unsuccessful [...]

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts." (Charles Dickens)

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