vrijdag 28 december 2007
Scientist and author Lewis Thomas once suggested how the people of Ear...
Scientist and author Lewis Thomas once suggested how the people of Earth should communicate with the universe: "I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later."
woensdag 26 december 2007
Very funny parody of our minister president in HP De Tijd of this week...
Very funny parody of our minister president in HP De Tijd of this week (Dutch only) here
maandag 24 december 2007
Someone once asked Jean Cocteau, "Suppose your house were on fire...
Someone once asked Jean Cocteau, "Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?"
Cocteau considered, then said, "I would take the fire."
zondag 23 december 2007
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hos...
This poem was written by a terminally
ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a doctor -
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic
flight? Or gazed at the sun into
the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say hi
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your
day, It is like an unopened
gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
From: http://fairfieldsbooks.com/2007/12/22/slow-dance/
ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a doctor -
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic
flight? Or gazed at the sun into
the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say hi
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your
day, It is like an unopened
gift….
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
From: http://fairfieldsbooks.com/2007/12/22/slow-dance/
vrijdag 21 december 2007
What a day, thank you Holland public transportation (not
What a day, thank you Holland public transportation (not!), that's all I have to say!
donderdag 20 december 2007
After some days of lots of stuff to do, especially conservatorywise I ...
After some days of lots of stuff to do, especially conservatorywise I am free to study for my recital.
This afternoon rehearsal with my pianist (not Wijnand due to his injury, but Hans Eijsackers).
Sunday we will have a small christmas party and tomorrow studying and market to buy some food for the party. We asked everyone to bring some food so we will have a tapas-like buffet.
Listening organ synmphony (no 3) by Saint-Saens now on last fm. Last fm is a revolution for me. I am discovering lots of new music (well, new to me!) on it. Now I am listening the Haydn similar artists channel (haven't heard any Haydn yet though!).
Speaking about Haydn. My quartet had a lesson with Metz again yesterday which was great fun. He has the ability to not listen to the instrument but only to the music, which can be confronting at times. Register changes can be heard as accents still sometimes which is something we need to be aware of aparantly still!
It feels so great to be playing Haydn with my quartet. I met Louis Andriessen yesterday and he said it takes courage to do that. Maybe, but I feel we have to do it, and I think the other boys feel the same way. It is music that we have to do right now. And we try to do it with care. We are studying it now and performing it next season (08-09) so we have some time to get it right!
This afternoon rehearsal with my pianist (not Wijnand due to his injury, but Hans Eijsackers).
Sunday we will have a small christmas party and tomorrow studying and market to buy some food for the party. We asked everyone to bring some food so we will have a tapas-like buffet.
Listening organ synmphony (no 3) by Saint-Saens now on last fm. Last fm is a revolution for me. I am discovering lots of new music (well, new to me!) on it. Now I am listening the Haydn similar artists channel (haven't heard any Haydn yet though!).
Speaking about Haydn. My quartet had a lesson with Metz again yesterday which was great fun. He has the ability to not listen to the instrument but only to the music, which can be confronting at times. Register changes can be heard as accents still sometimes which is something we need to be aware of aparantly still!
It feels so great to be playing Haydn with my quartet. I met Louis Andriessen yesterday and he said it takes courage to do that. Maybe, but I feel we have to do it, and I think the other boys feel the same way. It is music that we have to do right now. And we try to do it with care. We are studying it now and performing it next season (08-09) so we have some time to get it right!
vrijdag 14 december 2007
ReligiousShit Taoist - Shit happens
Religious Shit
Taoist - Shit happens.
Buddhist - Shit happening is an illusion.
Hindu - This shit has happened before.
Moslem - It is the will of Allah that Shit happens.
Confucian - Confucius say, “Shit happens.”
Zen - What is the sound of shit happening?
Catholic - If shit happens, you deserve it.
Jew - Why does this shit always happen to us?
Protestant - Let shit happen to someone else.
Atheist - Shit happens for no reason.
Agnostic - Maybe shit happens, maybe it doesn’t.
Baptists - Once you’re saved, shit doesn’t happen unless you backslide.
Jehovah’s Witnesses - Let us in and we’ll tell you why shit happens.
Rastafarian - Let’s smoke that shit.
donderdag 13 december 2007
Yesterday was the first night of our new concert series in the Ysbreke...
Yesterday was the first night of our new concert series in the Ysbreker at the Amstel in Amsterdam. We had a great night and the audience seemed very enthusiastic as well. Our intent was to create a less formal and more relaxed concert series with good music and good musicians. Not necessarily new music, or being hip, but just good music, whatever music, music that we feel strongly about.
We hope to reach people in their thirties and we hope to be competition for a night's out. Hence the concert space with a bar in the same building. And it worked, most people stayed until late.
I did another version of Berio VIIb... which was ok, anyway better than last week. It's a difficult piece. I think I did better after the session with Anner Bylsma and Vera Beths. I tried to make more characters (a word very often used by the soprano player of my quartet' He thinks a lot of times in characters and he's right!) in stead of focusing on the text solely. I tried to read more between the notes...
We hope to reach people in their thirties and we hope to be competition for a night's out. Hence the concert space with a bar in the same building. And it worked, most people stayed until late.
I did another version of Berio VIIb... which was ok, anyway better than last week. It's a difficult piece. I think I did better after the session with Anner Bylsma and Vera Beths. I tried to make more characters (a word very often used by the soprano player of my quartet' He thinks a lot of times in characters and he's right!) in stead of focusing on the text solely. I tried to read more between the notes...
Oh and, check it out: lastfm
Oh and, check it out: lastfm.com Lots of free streaming music internet radio. You can decide what you listen to! Great stuff, very addictive!
maandag 10 december 2007
Two nights of average 10 hours of sleep and I feel more rested
Two nights of average 10 hours of sleep and I feel more rested. I guess I demand a lot and that tires me out. I should take care. I keep reinventing the wheel apparantly.
Yesterday on tv this quote: "Creativity is an act of rebellion". I think that is very true and that is something I want to work with. To try other things, to keep searching. My teaching is big help with this. I experiment with my students and keep trying out things that might work. Instead of being a "schoolmaster" and prescribing how things should be done. (Thank you Anner Bylsma!)
Yesterday on tv this quote: "Creativity is an act of rebellion". I think that is very true and that is something I want to work with. To try other things, to keep searching. My teaching is big help with this. I experiment with my students and keep trying out things that might work. Instead of being a "schoolmaster" and prescribing how things should be done. (Thank you Anner Bylsma!)
zondag 9 december 2007
December: Sinterklaas, Christman and of course my recital in the Conce...
December: Sinterklaas, Christman and of course my recital in the Concertgebouw (of you wanna be there: hurry it might be already sold out...).
Today a day off, studying, relaxing, reading in Anner;s book about the cello suites (Bach). Great stuff, check it otu: Bach, the Fencing Master. Although it's quite hard reading if you don't know the man and how he speaks.
I transposed three movements of the third cello suite one half step higher (Dd sounding) so it fits my alto. I don't to do it on bari because I want to be able to play it anywhere. Besides, studying more bari will cost me my back for sure...
I have been a bit sick the past ten days. But still working, so it was something that kept on going and never really stopped. I never got a chance to go to the gym because of that, afraid of getting too sick. But today I feel better!
Wednesday I have a small interview in NRC Next and maybe NRC Handelsblad
Today a day off, studying, relaxing, reading in Anner;s book about the cello suites (Bach). Great stuff, check it otu: Bach, the Fencing Master. Although it's quite hard reading if you don't know the man and how he speaks.
I transposed three movements of the third cello suite one half step higher (Dd sounding) so it fits my alto. I don't to do it on bari because I want to be able to play it anywhere. Besides, studying more bari will cost me my back for sure...
I have been a bit sick the past ten days. But still working, so it was something that kept on going and never really stopped. I never got a chance to go to the gym because of that, afraid of getting too sick. But today I feel better!
Wednesday I have a small interview in NRC Next and maybe NRC Handelsblad
maandag 3 december 2007
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