Re: Tasmin Little - Naked Violin

On Jan 19, 10:00 pm, Jon Teske <jdte...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Ms. Little,

I enjoyed the download immensely and made a CD from it. I listened to
it in my car on my way to and from my own rehearsal in Washington DC
today. I'm a violinist (and sometime violist) and in retirement from
my "real" job...I was a government official...I now play in four
rather high end non-pro orchestras in this area. I was a student of
members of the Pro Arte Quartet (and 20th Century chamber music
pioneer Rudolf Kolisch) while in college and later with the well-known
virtuoso and pedagogue, the late Robert Gerle (now best known for two
book about practicing the violin and bowing practice...I hasten to add
he wrote those book AFTER I studied with him, I probably gave him much
inspiration. Although I began violin as a child, I did not have any
high level teachers available to me until I went to university and I
majored in other fields.)

I really loved all three performances. I play the Bach Partita of
course (and all the other S&Ps at some point in my life) but I really
enjoyed listening to the Patterson, a composer with whom I am not
familiar at all. I played through the first page displayed on the
link you provided and am serious thinking of ordering the sheet music,
certainly a worth addition to the 20th century solo violin literature
along with the Prokofiev (which I can play) and the Bartok (which I
can't.)

My orchestras, particularly two of them, do a lot of modern music and
the one I played with this morning the Washington Sinforietta, a new
chamber orchestra of all-volunteer musician, all of whom have had
college level training (many are teachers); or in two cases are kids
who are certifiable prodigies. We are doing a new work next month
commissioned by our orchestra in an all-American concert. Barber's
"Knoxville, Summer of 1915" is the other major work. Another orchestra
has a biennial compostion competition and we play the winning work for
that. We also do things like the Tan Dun "Paper Concerto" so we hardly
do just "Old Hat Stuff By Dead Guys."

I hope that your example of using internet downloads to further
classical music will bring this music to many more people, and not
coincidentally, I hope it helps your own career. I have followed it
for some time and I do already have a number of your CDs even though
they were not always readily available in the US. (Now with Tower
Records closed, there are really very few decent record and CD shops
geared for the serious classical collector...particularly those of us
who "have everything.")

Regards,

Jon Teske, violinist
Washington, DC

Hello Robert and Jon

Nice to hear from you both and once again, glad you are enjoying the
download. Robert, have you plucked up courage to try the Ysaye
yet??? He won't bite, I assure you!

:)

It's a great piece - really worth getting to know. I think that the
way he produces amazingly impressionistic colours out of simply one
violin is astonishing. My favourite recording of that used to be
Oistrakh but now I think it must be Thomas Zehetmair. Really
wonderful playing - so musical, fabulous technique, stunning colours.
Wish I could play like that!!!!!

:)

Jon, it was interesting to hear of your various musical activties. I
believe that Robert Gerle used to play the Delius violin concerto -
I'm sure I heard a recording of his when I was very young.

All remains quite busy here - lots of nice letters from people across
the globe and nice feedback about both the music and the spoken
intros. I'm gearing up for my concerts now as there is a fair amount
of repertoire in the next few months - and this was supposed to be my
quiet month!! It's been crazy but exciting - apparently there have
been a terabyte of downloads on my site.

Regards

Tasmin
.

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