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From the All Things Strings Community Online
Stop. Look. Listen.
Recently I’ve been thinking quite a bit about beauty, perception, and the maddening pace at which I and everyone I know seems to be moving these days. Since this has been on my mind so much lately, I’d like to share these thoughts with you as they relate to me as a string player and as someone who is trying to slow down and live more in the moment.
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This Week’s Gear Review
 You can get set up to start recording on your computer in under a minute with Blue Mics’ new XLR to USB converter and mic preamp.
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Day of Progressive Viola
 Yamaha Artists Services, Inc. and the New York Viola Society will present the first Day of Progressive Viola in New York City on October 5. The free and open event will focus on alternative styles. Martha Mooke will lead an electric strings workshop, former Turtle Island String Quartet member Danny Seidenberg will lead an improvisation workshop, and John Graham will give a performance with Mooke and Seidenberg at the end of the day. Yamaha will also offer instruments and equipment for attendees to test and play throughout the afternoon. nyvs.org
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Ljova Premieres Dance Collaboration
 Composer and violist Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin will premiere a new collaboration with choreographer Aszure Barton this month. Barton has used music from Zhurbin’s albums Vjola: World on Four Strings and Mnemosyne as well as original material for her latest dance project, Busk, which will premiere in Sarasota, Florida, during the Ringling International Arts Festival from October 7–11. ljova.com
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Kronos Quartet Workshop
 Carnegie Hall is now accepting applications from string quartets and pipa players, ages 18–35, for a weeklong workshop with the Kronos Quartet and guest artist and pipa player Wu Man from March 14–21, 2010. The workshop will focus on collaborative repertoire and works that had been commissioned by Kronos. The deadline to apply has been extended to October 26. carnegiehall.org
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Italian Violins on Auction 
Skinner Auctioneers of Boston will offer six 18th-century Italian violins at its October 11 sale, including a 1740 violin by Tomasso Balestrieri of Mantua, estimated to fetch between $70,000 and $90,000. The Balestrieri belonged to a former Houston Symphony concertmaster, Raphael Fliegel (1918–2005). Skinner’s head of sale, David Bonsey, says that the Balestrieri has “a comfortable rounded body shape and full, flat arching that produces maximum projection in large concert halls.”
Looking for an “affordable” 18th-century Italian instrument? Try lot 35, by Jacobus Cordanus of Genoa, circa 1770, estimated at $18,000–$24,000, or lot 43, a composite Peter Guarneri, Venice, with a later top by Carlo Tononi, estimated at $15,000–$25,000.
Other old Italians include a 1766 violin by Florentine master Johannes Baptista Gabrielli in fine condition, estimated at $50,000–$70,000; a composite violin by Felicio Senta, Turin, with a later top by Bernardo Calcanius of Genoa, $30,000–$40,000; and a fine Spirito Sorsana, circa 1720, with one-piece back, $50,000–$70,000. skinnerinc.com |
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Passing
Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Leon Kirchner, who studied under Schoenberg and mentored Yo-Yo Ma and John Adams, among others, has died of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 90. Kirchner, a conductor, pianist, and professor at Harvard University, composed numerous orchestral scores, chamber works, and four string quartets over the course of his career. He continued composing until the end of his life. |
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