Love is the most excellent way » music http://www.mildenhall.net Helen Mildenhall's site Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:16:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Graduation Recital May 22, 2011 http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/05/29/graduation-recital-may-22-2011/ http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/05/29/graduation-recital-may-22-2011/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 12:34:52 +0000 Helen http://www.mildenhall.net/?p=1334 [more]]]>

Ben and Darcy’s Graduation Recital was last weekend. It was mostly violin and viola but Ben also played a short piano piece – Intermezzo by Brahms, Op. 118 no. 2.

Videos of Ben and Darcy’s finale, Passacaglia on a Theme of Handel by Halvorsen, and the Brahms Intermezzo are below (click on them to play).

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The video of Esther and a video clip from Ben and Darcy playing Handel/Halvorsen are below (click on them to play)

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]]> http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/05/09/violin-recital-may-7-2011/feed/ 0 School orchestra concert March 22, 2011 http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/03/23/school-orchestra-concert-march-22-2011/ http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/03/23/school-orchestra-concert-march-22-2011/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:49:24 +0000 Helen http://www.mildenhall.net/?p=1308 Symphony OrchestraEsther and Ben were two of the soloists in the Four Seasons by Vivaldi played by their high school Symphony Orchestra last night. Esther is soloist in the first movement of Winter and Ben is soloist in the last movement of Summer.

The video is below (click on it to play)

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In November Ben recorded himself playing the first movement of the Waldstein Piano Sonata by Beethoven to send with college applications. Both videos are below (click on them to play)

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]]> http://www.mildenhall.net/2011/03/01/violin-recital-february-26-2011/feed/ 0 Ben playing Prokofiev Sonata no. 3 June 11, 2010 http://www.mildenhall.net/2010/06/12/ben-playing-prokofiev-sonata-no-3-june-11-2010/ http://www.mildenhall.net/2010/06/12/ben-playing-prokofiev-sonata-no-3-june-11-2010/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:48:29 +0000 Helen http://www.mildenhall.net/?p=1156 Ben was invited to play at Angela Wright’s students’ piano recital yesterday evening.

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