Hi, Guys!
I'm hoping that I am posting this correctly. I will readily admit to being a blog virgin...
Jim, Sheng and Jacqui, it was great to read your postings! Jim, I chuckled while reading about your house and music downloads. Jacqui, I do want to see wedding pictures. Sheng, good luck to you and Cindy with your studies.
We have had a really stressful past few months and I really rely on thinking of Summerkeys when I need a "happy" place. My parents are rapidly declining in health and I spend a lot of time making the 2 1/2 hour trip to Birmingham. My mother has had multiple mini-strokes that are now catching up with her and she is in rehab for speech and mobility issues. Daddy just turned 90 and is not doing well. Unfortunately, Mommy was the "healthy" one until the past few weeks... Dale is basically beginning a new company. This is a good thing but a bit unsettling.
Of course we also have the wedding coming up in May.
I have had limited time to play my viola and that really stinks! I did get to play for our middle and upper school production of Sound of Music last fall. It was really fun since I had taught most of the performers when they were pre-schoolers.
Hope all of you are well and making wonderful music!
Millie
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
BumpStuff
Hi everyone! I think I've finally blundered my way into this Blog, and it took me all afternoon. Now Pandora's Box is wide open, so stand back. And just wait 'til I figure out how to include incriminating photos taken last summer, and here around the house. Ruth: you'll love seeing Rachel's latest pottery, and I'll try to insert some pictures later.
I spent too much of the day fixing pin-hole leaks in my plumbing. My house may Look like a fairyland Victorian cottage on the outside, but ... all ye homeowners rest assured... it's a nasty tangle inside. Nothing ever works... know the feeling? .... so writing this scree is a relief!
SO... the most important things I want to pass on right now are some websites. As you know, FreeMusicInternetDownloads are my primary addiction, and I consider myself an almost insufferable expert on the subject, even tho' I know squat.
Here are some:
1. http://transpoalto.free.fr/ a quirky site obsessed with violas, viola ensemble music. The music is spotty, sometimes really fun and cute. Good if you have 3 or four viola accomplices. (I don't!)
2. http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/ Bretagne folk music. Celtic folk music, but real, not the overly popular, cloying, "I wish I were Irish" manufactured stuff you hear on "Celtic Sojourn".
3. http://www.cacophonix.com/ an English site, friendly guy runs it, and sometimes there are some neat solo/duet/trio things, downloadable, suitable for beginners.
4. http://www.eecellomusic.com/ of interest to cellists mostly. Cool.
5. http://www.kantoreiarchiv.de/interinfo a GREAT source of fairly easy string ensemble music. I download a lot of their stuff for my Sunday-afternoon Quartet sessions.
6. http://www.fac-simile.org/ This has a lot of quirky stuff. But if you want the Bach Cello Suites transposed for Viola, it's here.
7. http://www.jimpix.co.uk/v/sheetmusic/ another off-the-wall British site.
8. http://www.kb.dk/elib/noder/index-en.htm This is Pure Gold, but only if you're interested in unusual, Never-Played, fairly advanced chamber music. String Quartets by Danish composers, and, also, on this site, some really REALLY cool 19th-c. Danish christmas postcards with musical attachments. WAY cool.
9. http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/Events.php The absolute Mother-Lode of free music. In order to use it, you've got to know your periods, styles and composers, or you won't know where to begin. Most of it is reasonably well-edited, considering it's free (and so you get what you pay for!). There are Thousands of things here. I check in on it daily.
10. http://music.lib.byu.edu/piva/ZeyringerNP2.htm#leit This is just to top it off: it's an incredibly dry, boreing, Teutonic list of viola music that you can't possibly get anywhere, so it's just plain Maddening!
I'll write other stuff later, but I just wanted to get this internet-download list off to everyone.
JB
I spent too much of the day fixing pin-hole leaks in my plumbing. My house may Look like a fairyland Victorian cottage on the outside, but ... all ye homeowners rest assured... it's a nasty tangle inside. Nothing ever works... know the feeling? .... so writing this scree is a relief!
SO... the most important things I want to pass on right now are some websites. As you know, FreeMusicInternetDownloads are my primary addiction, and I consider myself an almost insufferable expert on the subject, even tho' I know squat.
Here are some:
1. http://transpoalto.free.fr/ a quirky site obsessed with violas, viola ensemble music. The music is spotty, sometimes really fun and cute. Good if you have 3 or four viola accomplices. (I don't!)
2. http://breizhpartitions.free.fr/en/ Bretagne folk music. Celtic folk music, but real, not the overly popular, cloying, "I wish I were Irish" manufactured stuff you hear on "Celtic Sojourn".
3. http://www.cacophonix.com/ an English site, friendly guy runs it, and sometimes there are some neat solo/duet/trio things, downloadable, suitable for beginners.
4. http://www.eecellomusic.com/ of interest to cellists mostly. Cool.
5. http://www.kantoreiarchiv.de/interinfo a GREAT source of fairly easy string ensemble music. I download a lot of their stuff for my Sunday-afternoon Quartet sessions.
6. http://www.fac-simile.org/ This has a lot of quirky stuff. But if you want the Bach Cello Suites transposed for Viola, it's here.
7. http://www.jimpix.co.uk/v/sheetmusic/ another off-the-wall British site.
8. http://www.kb.dk/elib/noder/index-en.htm This is Pure Gold, but only if you're interested in unusual, Never-Played, fairly advanced chamber music. String Quartets by Danish composers, and, also, on this site, some really REALLY cool 19th-c. Danish christmas postcards with musical attachments. WAY cool.
9. http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/Events.php The absolute Mother-Lode of free music. In order to use it, you've got to know your periods, styles and composers, or you won't know where to begin. Most of it is reasonably well-edited, considering it's free (and so you get what you pay for!). There are Thousands of things here. I check in on it daily.
10. http://music.lib.byu.edu/piva/ZeyringerNP2.htm#leit This is just to top it off: it's an incredibly dry, boreing, Teutonic list of viola music that you can't possibly get anywhere, so it's just plain Maddening!
I'll write other stuff later, but I just wanted to get this internet-download list off to everyone.
JB
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Latest news
Hope everyone's 2007 has started off well! Jacqui, when will you post photos from the wedding (and cruise?)
This is actually my first blog entry ever (even though this was my idea...) and I'm looking forward to seeing it grow! I'm sure I'll get better at it and will look into adding other neat stuff to it like music clips and video. And of course pictures (see right)
Cindy and I are trying to wrap up our doctoral work and have a few major concerts coming up. Recently I have played a few events with members from the White House Chamber Orchestra (who plays for the President) and that's been great!
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's posts. Stay warm!!!
More Music
After a very busy beginning of the year, I have finally found some time to do another update.
I have ordered some different music from Greenblatt & Seay to include The Viola Fiddling Tune Book and CD and The Viola Player’s Book of Rounds. Just for a little variety, I hope to find some time to practice some of the tunes this weekend.
I have ordered some different music from Greenblatt & Seay to include The Viola Fiddling Tune Book and CD and The Viola Player’s Book of Rounds. Just for a little variety, I hope to find some time to practice some of the tunes this weekend.
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