Livejournal dropped off the radar for a while ( Read more... )

Some fairly major changes in my life...now working in Watford, for the next three months at least. Have brought my viola down here and have somewhere to practice. Going to this http://www.watfordsymphonyorchestra.co.uk/ next Thursday for their "repertoire evening". Other ( Read more... )

After a period of being really tied up with my work, and playing my normal viola in a few gigs, I resumed playing the vertical viola, and for the past few weeks I've been taking it to Alderley Edge Orchestra rehearsals. So I'm intending to play it at their next concert, which is on Saturday, 31 May. Remember that one of the other viola players ( Read more... )

Since the last post I've played two concerts with Alderley Edge and one with CAOS. Tomorrow I'm playing with Harmony Gospel Choir (not really my scene, but they asked for string players to accompany some of their songs and I didn't say no quickly enough ( Read more... )

Firstly, I've finally got my hands on the cello. He's called Archie, and sounds beautiful - though probably much more beautiful when I actually learn how to play! (a friend has offered to give me some lessons, but that seems to be up in the air at the moment). I still need to buy a cello bow ( Read more... )

I'll be blogging on my progress with that project over there.

Going to a Baroque orchestra tonight (1st time). Not much else to report, though I'm still doing a "maintenance job", as my teacher calls it, on the piano.

Seems like quite a few people have abandoned their journals for a while, and a number of them have then resumed...and that includes me! My life was really hectic around the time of my previous post, so I didn't update for a while, then there became too much to write, then lots of people stopped writing on LJ which meant I logged into it less and ( Read more... )

Had the A2 harmony (Bach Chorale) exam this morning. I was getting Bish grades on my past papers, but today in the exam I double-checked, triple-checked, then copied out (from working sheet to answer book) and still managed to fixed one consecutive! So I'm fairly confident that I've done OK...probably A/B borderline ( Read more... )

Just got back from my first exam session. I didn't do very well in the AS Listening paper - I struggled to identify the chords in the last piece and just guessed at V - I - V - I, the 2nd piece was a male choir and there was a 3 mark question about melody, I couldn't hear very much melody :-( so I don't think I did well in that one ( Read more... )

I played in an Alderley Edge concert today. I hadn't been to rehearsals due to revising etc, but they said they really wanted me to come because otherwiseh they'd be short of viola players. As it happens there were two others on the day...my playing was terrible, both in terms of my instrumental technique and, more seriously, my general ( Read more... )