INTENSITY²
Start here => M.O.-Introductions => Topic started by: Janicka on June 17, 2007, 10:02:19 PM
-
Hiya. I heard about Intensity on WP. Thought I'd check it out.
-
well, is it horrible?
-
Hiya. I heard about Intensity on WP. Thought I'd check it out.
OK. Cool.
-
Good to see ya.
-
hello and welcome!
-
Hiya. I heard about Intensity on WP. Thought I'd check it out.
Did you see it in George_Orwell's signature??
-
Greetings n00b >:D
Evil enough for you? :eyebrows:
-
Do you have any fetish we can ridicule, n00b? :eyebrows:
-
Do you have any fetish we can ridicule, n00b? :eyebrows:
No. Current obsession is :violin:
-
Hiya. I heard about Intensity on WP. Thought I'd check it out.
Did you see it in George_Orwell's signature??
Not just that. All the older people (meaning not kids, chronologically) talk about intensity here and there.
-
Intensity gets to you. You have been warned. :evillaugh:
-
Do you have any fetish we can ridicule, n00b? :eyebrows:
No. Current obsession is :violin:
do you mean feeling sorry for yourself, or playing the violin? if it's the latter, do you ever play vaughan williams' "the lark ascending"?
-
The latter. And I've not played that one.. I don't really care for many British composers *ducks and prepares to be flamed*. Though, I am sure that there are a few good things out there that would change my mind. I just haven't gone looking for them.
-
The latter. And I've not played that one.. I don't really care for many British composers *ducks and prepares to be flamed*. Though, I am sure that there are a few good things out there that would change my mind. I just haven't gone looking for them.
well worth it, i'd say - VW is one of my favourites. so, what do you play, then?
-
The latter. And I've not played that one.. I don't really care for many British composers *ducks and prepares to be flamed*. Though, I am sure that there are a few good things out there that would change my mind. I just haven't gone looking for them.
well worth it, i'd say - VW is one of my favourites. so, what do you play, then?
Well, at the moment I practice etudes. Lots and lots of etudes every day (Sevcik, Wolfahrt, Dont, Mazas, Kreutzer). Those are pretty elementary, but it seems like each time I go back and play them, I get something different out of them that helps my technique (since the notes aren't that hard to figure out anymore). Then I basically play the standard audition repertoirs - I'm trying to get the Mozart G Major concerto and Mendelsohn to sound halfway decent. Also, I play the Bach unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas and the Paganini Caprices.
At the moment, I also play with a community orchestra and a string quartet with a few of my friends. So I also have my hands full with that. A lot of times, I end up blowing off the orchestra music. I can't really afford to do that with this upcoming concert since all of the music is really quite difficult. It pisses me off, because the last concert we had, the music was easy enough to sight read. It would be nice if maybe the level of difficulty could be spread around so that there was maybe one or two difficult pieces in the concert and I could sightread the rest. Apparently, that makes too much sense to some people ::)
I also play the viola, but I haven't been practicing that lately. I've actually heard that the job outlook is better there, but I don't know how true that is. In any event, I'd like to play the Stamitz D Major concerto - supposedly it's pretty difficult, but from looking at the music it doesn't seem that much worse than Mozart G Major conerto for violin. Also, I think that the Telemann unaccompanied Fantasias are much more beautiful than the Bach unaccompanied sonatas and partitas for the violin, and probably comperable in their technical demands.
Now, my biggest problem with the violin is that you need to be somewhat disinhibited yet highly technical to pull off some of the pyrotechnics. I've not bee able to figure out how to do that. This is why the viola is somewhat more appealing to me. I was actually the principal violist with the university's orchestra when I was going there. I've also played in a string quartet before. The parts were easy enough, but had to be played very precisely. In some regards it was easier, but in other ways it was like performing surgery - it required lots of precision, which worked well with the fact that my playing is very inhibited.
-
i don't know any stamitz. telemann is gorgeous, and mozart is unspeakable. etudes are always jolly, i think, although some for the piano are fiendish.
you're right about viola players - there's definitely more career oprions, mainly cos there are so few good ones around. i started to learn it, to play with the london schools symphony orchestra (,illions of years ago), but i was put off by the pervy teacher, and so didn't get very far with it. you'd probably be able to sight read viola parts more easily - they tend to get bunged the notes left over when everyone else has got one, like singing contralto in a choir. ::)
-
Welcome Janicka.
Is violin your main passion, the one you make your career from?
-
I did learn to read the alto clef (obviously). Once I got used to it, sight reading most of the parts was quite easy. Really it was a matter of keeping one eye on the conductor and the other eye on the desk, since the parts demanded precision and not much else.
Sorry about the teacher. I did have one excellent teacher, who switched back and forth between the violin and viola with no effort. I loved her. Then I had one year of college with this teacher that was a complete hack. I hated his guts, and ended up dropping out of school because of him. After that, I had another teacher that I was extremely fond of - a violist - (and the first teacher was very happy that I found another teacher that I liked). But I ended up quitting with him for a number of reasons - the short version of the story is that I was getting evicted because of a personality conflict with the landlord (I did get to stay, but moved out eventually because she was cunt) and then the 9/11 attacks took place and I got really depressed.
Anyway, it's been some time since that happenend now. Even though I already got a university degree, I've been thinking that I'd like to go and study music education (you know, to teach in the schools). Although I'd really like a job playing with an orchestra, the teaching would be a fallback position. And it would be a very good fallback position, since there is a teacher shortage where I live.
Frankly, both would be superior options to my fucking fluorescent-lit cubicle hell :wanker:
-
Welcome Janicka.
Is violin your main passion, the one you make your career from?
1) Yes
2) No, but I would like to. My current carreer involves a cubicle :(