Download Mendelssohn Esther played the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E Minor for the Oak Park River Forest Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition yesterday. As always, the issue with competitions is the competition; she was up against some other excellent violinists and one of them won. I thought it was some of Esther’s...
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Last week was a good week for Esther. Not only did she get to go to the White House, she was finished with her braces and had them taken off! Here are photos from a) March 2008, before braces; b) August 2009 with them and c) this weekend – no braces! (Click...
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This is a copy of my most recent post on the Communitas Collective blog. I’ve been doing some programming recently which has reminded me how black or white computer code is. When it’s correctly written it always works. If it’s just one character off it will (maddeningly) entirely fail to run. And yes, I’ve...
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Esther and Ben both appear very briefly in this video about the White House classical music workshops on Nov 4. The violinists are shown tuning at about 0:15 and 1:15; Esther is in the first shot and Ben is in the second.
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On Wednesday Nov 4 The White House is having a classical music event and Ben and Esther are going! Here are some news articles about it: White House ready to showcase classical music Classical music will take center stage at the White House next week as First Lady Michelle Obama continues her musical series of educational...
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