December 24th, 2007 | by Helen | published in General updates
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas - or holiday, whatever you want to call it - tomorrow.
By the way, in case any of you don’t know, I also host the blog Conversation at the Edge. In general my personal and family news goes on here and things I’d like to talk about go [...]
December 23rd, 2007 | by Helen | published in General updates
The Windy City String Ensemble’s year end concert was on Friday. The first video clip below is the ending of Serenade for Strings by Tschaikovsky. Ben is concertmaster, on the left, and Esther is principal second (with the hairband, next but one along from Ben). The WCSE comprises about 30 string players, almost all in [...]
December 20th, 2007 | by Helen | published in General updates
The music accompaniment is a recording of Ben playing The Minute Waltz by Chopin.
December 16th, 2007 | by Helen | published in General updates
Ben is learning Liszt’s first piano concerto. Last night he played it for the first time in a small recital (his piano teacher is accompanying him). Ben’s preparing this for a competition in 2009 so he’ll be working on it for a while. It’s going well so far.
Steve audio recorded all of it. I recorded [...]
December 7th, 2007 | by Helen | published in General updates
Last Friday Ben and Esther were some of the musicians for the annual Holiday Housewalk. This event is to raise money for Infant Welfare.
The organizers ask students to volunteer to play music in the houses on the housewalk. For the last few years Ben and Esther have participated; this year they each played for [...]
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