Paganini 24 caprices for solo violin. I saw this years ago on a bootleg VHS when I was at Peabody, and I blogged about it on Advogato. Apparently there were a number of people who wanted to see it, because I to get the video.
Some offered to pay me to make them a copy of the bootleg of the video, but it wasn't mine.
I watched the whole thing, and it's the same one that I saw back then. It's sort of cheesily done, and it looks like the director/editor got some video editing software and wanted to try all the goofy effects out.
good idea to try to use all the pre-built effects or something. So, the DVD is pretty funny to watch because it's so bad. But Markov's playing is very good, and it's nice to see (when you can actually see.
. there's his shadow) and hear.
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It's sort of an orchestral arrangement (supposedly avant garde, not not really in my opinion) of White Stripes music, which sounds sort of dumb but ended up working pretty well. At least, better than any other orchestral version of rock music I've ever heard. I think they orchestral arrangements of.
shows, and I was really looking forward to getting those. Well, it empty package was delivered to me. I'm really sort of pissed about that.
I contacted the company that sent it, hoping they'll send me another set. I feel like it is sort of their fault for not packaging it very well. I'm not really sure how else to deal with this right now, but I noticed that the shipment was insured.
. although not for as much as I paid for it, so that is a little worrying. So, we ended up not reading Faure or Schumann or Mahler today.
Instead much.
We're going to meet on Saturday to read through the new music instead. I can't wait!
I'm very excited about it. Finally our new quartet music came in the other day, so on Thursday my group is going to read through something new and fun. We ordered both piano quartets by Faure, and the Mahler piano quartet.
Maybe something else too, but I forgot. It will be a welcome change for me, because by that piece.
I also just ordered the Bruch Eight Pieces, Op.
83 for viola, clarinet, and piano. I am performing that in a recital next month for a doctoral student's recital I think. It should be a lot of fun, I think.
I school, and I liked it a lot. It's a very nice piece that is still not I went to Dallas Symphony last night to hear their concertmaster, Emanuel Borok, play the third Mozart violin concerto. They also did Rachmaninov's second symphony and Mannheim Rocket by Corigliano.
It was overall a really great concert, but I went there especially for the Mozart and I was not disappointed. Borok really played well, I thought, and the orchestra sounded very good. I had heard that he also has written his own cadenzas for all the Mozart concerti, so I was looking forward to hearing that.
The the first two cadenzas were nothing out of the ordinary I think.. especially the first one I thought was very sensible and traditional.
In the last movement, however, the cadenzas were completely surprising! It didn't sound really Mozartian, I'm not really sure what it was..
I guess just very Borok, I don't know. It's hard to describe here. But I definitely enjoyed it.
He just totally threw me for a loop for that last movement, because especially after the previous ones I did not see that coming.
I had never heard the Corigliano before. It was okay, but nothing to write much about.
And so, I guess I won't. The best part was before it thing, by which she meant Mannheim Steamroller. heh :) So I finally got the concert DVD, Under Blackpool Lights.
It was filmed at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, England in January 2004. I really like it a lot, and forced my friend Jason to watch it last night. He's not as familiar with them yet, so he's not a big fan but he still seemed to enjoy it well enough.
Then he forced me to start watching Aeon Flux (the cartoon, not the movie). I had never seen it, which surprised him. But it came on late night MTV, and I have never watched MTV so I guess that's why I had never seen it.
So far I can't really say I like it that much, but I Jean-Baptiste Note has taken my latest cross-compile build of GTK 2.10 and created a Windows installer. If anyone is interested, !
Thanks very much to Jean-Baptiste for that.
He points out that it doesn't work under WINE, but neither have any previous GTK builds for Win32 so I guess nobody will lose sleep over that. It apparently doesn't detect the version of Windows correctly or something and : To you and the Lebanese Arab whose comment you posted to your blog, I think you're a little off in your target.
It's easy to just point the finger at US citizens and say, "you guys vastly better. No matter who we vote for, this is still the US.
American foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere has been consistently immoral for decades.
The US has blocked the two-state solution that the rest of the world, and most of the US population, has supported since 1976. This isn't some new phenomenon that is the result of George W Bush's foreign policy. This is US foreign policy, and is not even limited strictly to the domain of the Republican Party.
The US continued to support expansion of illegal settlements of West Bank and Gaza during the Clinton administration's years.
We have serious problems in this country that can't be fixed overnight, and simply saying "vote the other way" is not a real solution at this point. The people need to become aware of what's going on and what our government is doing, and that's not an easy thing to do.
Propaganda in this country is immense and powerful and it's enormously difficult to get people to become aware of it. It's happening slowly, but the propaganda machines are adapting because they're better centralized and have the support of enormous corporations.
Obviously the government is not acting by the same ethical standards that the people are, and this is evident by of us knew it was a lie all along, but now he has admitted it).
It's becoming increasingly more difficult for the government to hide these things from the people, so they're stepping up the propaganda to try to influence people's decisions. Kennedy didn't need to lie about what he was doing, and didn't need such a massive propaganda system. He just did what he wanted, and most people were behind him.
Let's start a massive terrorist campaign against Cuba. Great! Want to go bomb some little south Asian country on the other side of the planet?
Sure! It's not so easy anymore. Chomsky points out in the beginning of that Reagan's administration tried to do things in the same direct way at the beginning of his term in 1981 and there was massive dissaproval about it, so they resorted to clandestine operations instead.
Look at the Iraq invasion: never in the history of the US (or of the world) has there been so much opposition to a war--at home--before the war even began. Sure, you're going to point out that the war happened anyway, but look at how hard it was for them to start the war. They had to present so much false information to persuade Congress to approve the war, and now that this stuff is being future one) to start another such war.
This is the type of progress that is being made, and I think we should not downplay it. We can always do better, but let's not discount what positive advances are being made. I've been looking into GConf a little bit, trying to figure out how best to optimize for things like metacity when they're starting up.
I went the IDL sources but was never implemented for some reason, but that's not really the entire solution. It seems like there is something not directory.
Metacity preloads keys from /apps/metacity or whatever, so you expect it will recursively preload all the keys.
But when I trace the
a few unrelated things...
Walvoord. It was really fun, and it looks like we're going to prepare something for a concert sometime. Dr.
Walvoord seemed really cool, and is a really good violinist so it was a lot of fun. Amirosh and I are supposed to also play the Brahms clarinet trio with Dr. Solomons, so we figured we could put them on the same program.
I also came across a couple really cool duos for viola and cello, by Piston and Lutoslawski, that I would like to read through with Amirosh Win32 on his system also. We found a couple places where my process only hopefully anyone can reproduce this.
I've posted online now, because a number of people contacted me after my last post about this and were interested in building GTK for Win32 also.
So, I would like to hear from people and find out if this worked for others. If you have problems with it on your system and find a solution, I can add that to the docs.
I also want to move this over to sometime.
That seems like a more appropriate place for it. I'll try to do that later this week.
Once again, a big thanks to Tor Lillqvist and everyone on #gtk+ who helped it on Windows using MSYS or Cygwin or something, but I managed to cross-compile from Linux and it seemed to sort of work.
for how to build GTK on Win32, so I made a log of every step of others. We're never going to get any of the Win32-related bugs fixed if nobody can build it. :) So my next step is to start with violist Roberto Diaz.
It was very good, and I was happy I went. This was actually my first time to hear a live So the violinist in this concert was someone named James Ehnes, who I had never heard of before. I thought he was pretty good but his interpretation was pretty stiff.
He played all the notes and everything, but it lacked a lot of musicality I thought.
Roberto, on the other hand, was very expressive. His rhythm was not rigid, and he was very lively and energetic.
My only the first two movements were far too fast, and Roberto seemed to be pushing it somewhat. I'm not sure if that is entirely true, but of the two soloists I felt that he was sort of the one in control. I also thought the last movement seemed ever so slightly too fast, but it's marked presto so I guess you can go as fast as you want.
I wouldn't say it felt out of control or anything, it just felt hurried.
Still, this was a very nice performance and I am certainly glad that I went to it. I think today was the only day that they So I went out to California the last two weeks to start my new job, and I got to Anthony Taranto, , and also work there.
It was a really fun trip, everyone was fun. I almost went to see SoaP with the rest of the company, but my plane left too early on Friday so I missed out. viola sonata a few days ago, and decided to Google his viola, the 1595 knew never recovered, but I was surprised to find from April that claimed the instrument was recovered in Milan, about 26 free rental, and Valerie had more than 20 coupons here so Jason came them from various points of view.
It seems to focus predominantly on the negative effects of corporations, which in my opinion is exactly what needs to be focused on, but it also shows how things can change and manifest itself as a powerful evil force, it is still composed primarily of normal humans.
wasn't aware of before, such as the attempted coup against FDR by a family/corporation, IBM's development of computer solutions to aid the German Nazis in running their concentration camps, and the reporters and the people who drank the cows' milk. (spoiler alert: the reporters sued Fox and initially won, but the verdict was appealed and I highly recommend this movie to anyone and everyone!
So I posted on the viola list yesterday, thinking I had found the cheapest strings in the country, when someone responded and told me that is cheaper. So don't I feel stupid now. :) musical instrument shop located in Maryland somewhere.
They appear to have about the cheapest strings anywhere in the country, so I ordered a the hopes of promoting their awesomely cheap strings. I just bought a plus tax, but I forgot to check) and free shipping. Not bad, So, Special K has ordered her bow from Thomachot now and she wanted to have it made very much like mine.
So she asked him if he can make it the same weight as mine, but I guess he doesn't have all the weight of the bow. I pulled out a little measuring scale from the kitchen and it said the bow is 70g. But that scale isn't very accurate, and the little markers on it go to the nearest 5g.
I just measured it with that out of curiosity. But today I went back to Arlington and took the bow to Mike Sherriff, a bow maker there, because he has a scale that measures to 0.1g accuracy.
. and it turned out that the bow was 70.0g.
So I just found out from Yi-Ping today that in Vienna last Monday, on June 12. I had just been sitting around talking to Amirosh and Dr. Walters about Ligeti and his music sometime last week, when Amirosh asked if he was still alive.
Dr. Walters and I both said he was, longer. But it turned out by that time we were already wrong.
I really like Ligeti's viola sonata, although it's way too difficult for me to attempt to play any time soon. But I can still listen to it and enjoy it. I have heard some of his chamber music as well, and really enjoyed it a lot.
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