Knowledge Exchange Violin: Part 3 – Autumn 2023
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Jonathan Harvey – Flight Elegy (live)
August 18, 2023
Over the past few days, watching California Condors over buttes and ravines of the South Rim of the Canyon, I found this wonderful piece by Jonathan Harvey was in my mind. So here is ‘Flight Elegy’ – a very old live recording, with two drawings I did, as the the monsoon came in, and in […]
Conversations with Bartók – Violin in hand August 2023
August 7, 2023
Conversations with Bartók – August 2023 It’s not possible to be in New York City, practising and writing about Bartok, and NOT play the great sonata he wrote here. So here is the Melodia, at the desk this morning, with the view from the desk, as the rain stopped… With thanks to Monika Machon and […]
‘I met a traveller from an antique land’ Some thoughts about scratches, bumps and wear
August 5, 2023
Some thoughts about wear patterns on violins and violas …A letter to a fellow musician (August 2023) Your fascinating letter offers so many things to mull over: Do you mind, if I step back and begin with a potted overview of the history of patina and aesthetic wear on violins? For me, the ‘turning […]
August 28, 2023