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 [more]
May 102008
May 032008
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 begins a few seconds into it. Esther is almost [more]
May 022008
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 piano before and after the ensemble. Ben and Esther are [more]
Mar 242008
Breaking May (the band Ben is in) live in concert March 10, 2008. Ben is on the left playing the keyboard. This is one of five clips of the band from that event. They wrote the three songs they played that evening.
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