I'm playing in a concert tomorrow night!

Thanks Nancy!
I just got back from morning rehearsal. You definitely have to go to some concerts, but you have to research to see what orchestras are really good, and what pieces you are moved by.

I could go to 100 cocnerts that bore me away. But lots I could just sit and listen to, rewind (if it was possible) and hear again and again.:o)

Just checking in to see how your concert went. I hope you had a wonderful time and the audience loved you!

Hi Nance hun,
Yes, it went wonderfully. I posted about it already. I think it was titled something like, "Concert spectacular" At least it had those two words in it. Enjoy. Thanks for asking. I hope your throat feels fresh and proud with the smoke free burrows!:o)

Thanks, Joyce!
To be in an orchestra, you don't have to be talented. I have a friend, who is the mother of a professional violist. She started the violin a couple years ago and loves it. She joined an orchestra. I know, also as she asked me to coach her quartet (all members in the orchestra) who are mediocre level. But it is an orchestra for people their level.

I am in a more advanced level violin. But I also sometimes take off seasons of if I do not like the pieces are performing.;o)

You have to make sure you don't go to a concert where the music is boring, of you'll be turned off from classical. If you go to a great one, you'll love it. That's why it is too stereotyped.:o)

Thanks for your warm words.

Hey Honey Bunches of Oats,
Thanks so much for your kind words. Oh, how cute that you go to the Nutcracker regularly. Nostalgia! I was so happy to hear from you too. Thanks.

Like I noted above, classical cocnerts, too many people are turned away from it, only because classical music is too stereotyped. It's actually like "Oldies, New, Hard Rock, Soft Rock, etc. etc. etc.". That much in variations of the types of music that are performed. So, when you go to your first cocnert, go to the one that you know the type of music, so you are moved by it.

Hugs!

Thanks Siss!
Yes, I started the violin when I was 4 years old! (But we actually have a video of me, and it's pathetically, and really cute and ditsy, of me giving a little concert, and I loosen my bow intil it falls apart. My mum runs onto stage to help out).

Thank you, and yes, I'll let you go.:o)

Hi hun!
Thanks. And that's great that your past generations played music. Music makes up so much of our lives.

I just had a random thought pop into my head (hee hee). I wonder, assuming already there are many otherliving creatttttures, I wonder what kind of music they listen to!

Back to the subject...;o) ... You should go to at least one or two classical concerts, but ones that move you.

We have a friend who didn't listen to classical music before, whose looking fwd to come and listen tonight!:o) Thank you.

I would go listen to a classical conert but my husband has no interest. He'd rather go watch a sporting event. I come from a very musical family but somehow it got away from me and I excelled in sports. Both my parents were in show business. My brother and I neither had any interest in music although I love to listen to it.

Oh Dragon,
Thank you. I did have a great, but tiring night! I will have to update you guys in a discussion. It went spectacularly.

Aww, I hope you can overcome the anxiety. Stage fright can be worked on. I have had students who've had stage fright, but gradually improved steadily.:o)

Ian,
Thanks for your response. Oh, I hope that you can join an orchestra too. Have you looked up for all possible ones in you area? I did respond to somebody else's about how there aer all level orchestras, whether pro or ameature, or for fun. I'll read some of your other postings when I have chance. I also posted today, after the concert. It went wonderfully!

Happy Tunes to you!

Join me in playing at the past concert?;o) Or conversation? Welcome, as I see you must be pretty new too.:o)

Oh how nice to hear!:o) I hope you attend a wonderful one that keeps up your love for them. They vary so much. Can go to one that I love, and then another that I think was not good at all, which would turn me off. That's why for thsoe who say they don't like classical music, I know and bet they haven't experienced enough or the right kinds.

Thanks for replying, Karen

Thanks, Manya for your wishes. The concert went great. We got a standing O. That was a few weeks ago.

But last night, coincidently, I got to play the National Anthem solo (I wrote a revised version) for a National Champtionships in sports.:o) I get to also tonight! So, in a rush off! Have a great day!