Octava Chamber Orchestra Concert - Sunday, January 28
Hello friends!
Happy New Year! I'm playing another concert in exactly one week, with Octava again, in Lynnwood.
Here's the official concert flyer - and please note that children are free with an adult, and tickets are $2 cheaper if you buy them in advance here.
I'm in the second violin section for this one. Contrary to what a lot of people think, playing second fiddle can be a really enjoyable experience, if you have good material to work with. I enjoy it with the Schubert on this program, in particular. Schubert writes a lot of lush harmonies and lovely countermelodies for the middle voices; it's like being a beautiful wooden beam that's holding up the structure of the piece, instead of, I dunno, a really spectacular mural on the wall. I'm enjoying my supporting role, making little countermelody shapes, and bending harmonies to fit just so. It's a similar feeling with the Beethoven - when you're in the backing band for a concerto, you're always in a supporting role, and it can be rewarding in its own way.
The Edward is a new piece - new to the world, in fact. It was written just for this orchestra, and is subtitled "Les Sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir", which I am told means "The sounds and scents that turn in the evening air". It's in a very French Impressionist vein- think Ravel - from a French-Canadian composer- and has lots of lovely drifty woodwinds. The sheet music even has our name on it:
Come on out and hear this performed for the first time anywhere! It's a cool and special thing to see and hear a new piece of music brought into the world, and I'm always excited to be a part of that.
Happy New Year! I'm playing another concert in exactly one week, with Octava again, in Lynnwood.
Here's the official concert flyer - and please note that children are free with an adult, and tickets are $2 cheaper if you buy them in advance here.
I'm in the second violin section for this one. Contrary to what a lot of people think, playing second fiddle can be a really enjoyable experience, if you have good material to work with. I enjoy it with the Schubert on this program, in particular. Schubert writes a lot of lush harmonies and lovely countermelodies for the middle voices; it's like being a beautiful wooden beam that's holding up the structure of the piece, instead of, I dunno, a really spectacular mural on the wall. I'm enjoying my supporting role, making little countermelody shapes, and bending harmonies to fit just so. It's a similar feeling with the Beethoven - when you're in the backing band for a concerto, you're always in a supporting role, and it can be rewarding in its own way.
The Edward is a new piece - new to the world, in fact. It was written just for this orchestra, and is subtitled "Les Sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir", which I am told means "The sounds and scents that turn in the evening air". It's in a very French Impressionist vein- think Ravel - from a French-Canadian composer- and has lots of lovely drifty woodwinds. The sheet music even has our name on it:
Come on out and hear this performed for the first time anywhere! It's a cool and special thing to see and hear a new piece of music brought into the world, and I'm always excited to be a part of that.
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