Not even teaching today

Not even teaching today. Being bored at home...
Tomorrow my students have their technical exams. I hope I'll be fit enough to be there. A whole day of etudes and scales!

Ties Mellema/Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra play JacobTV's Tallahatchie Concerto.

JacobTV - Tallahatchie Concerto, with Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, LIVE in Caracas, Teatro Teresa Carreno, Venezuela. First Movement: 2nd Movement:

On the Other Hand', 23 August 2008, NEW VIDEOS ADDED 1 DEC 08. Grachtenfestival, Amsterdam Conservatory. David Dramm - Hangman (Premier) and Rossini's Ave Maria su Due Note.

On the Other Hand, 23 August 2008, Grachtenfestival, Conservatory of Amsterdam, Blue Note Hall and the Amsterdam Uitmarkt August 2008, Amsterdam Conservatory, Haitink Hall. New videos added 01-12-08

 

Online version of the December 2008 news letter

New videos uploaded, a.o. JacobTV's Tallahatchie Concerto in the video section of this site

Still sick, even had to cancel a date with good friends in Emmen

Still sick, even had to cancel a date with good friends in Emmen. We are taking over their 'baby uitzet', i.e. a lot of baby stuff they don't need anymore.
Watched my new DVD by Kleiber and KCO with Beethoven 7 (yes still!). Great performance, although he didn't seem to be very happy at some moments. He never returned to the orchestra again...
Two concerts this week. Exciting, Mendelssohn again, and Wijnand/Bach...

The flue

The flue... can't really work focussed...
We might have a name though!

19 December 2008: De Nacht at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg

19 December 2008: De Nacht at the Fontys Conservatory in Tilburg. The saxophone class will perform the whole Winterreise by Schubert on different saxophones with Martien Maas at the piano!