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ryan libel musical me ryan libel about my blog musical me my return to symphony center june 23 2021 by ryan libel in uncategorized leave a comment the chicago symphony s covid hiatus felt interminable but a couple of weeks back fifteen months after my last visit i triumphantly walked the three blocks to symphony center for one of the three weekends only live and in person productions the cso decided to mount indoors before decamping for their annual ravinia residency the run up announcements requested we 2021 inaugural post january 22 2021 by ryan libel in uncategorized leave a comment i have not had a violin lesson since march 2020 when the veil of pandemic descended my last post was on my birthday eight months ago a few things have changed in that time i passed a playing anniversary 7 years on the instrument last november and we all started a new a birthday song may 24 2020 by ryan libel in musical passion playing with others practice notes reviews 1 comment today i made it to 44 happy birthday to me yesterday i played the violin for three hours perlman says nobody needs to practice more than that quarantine times are strange you might imagine i d play for hours everyday but in truth i go days without playing then i play marathons you might also bach via trifonov march 8 2020 by ryan libel in reviews leave a comment there s a rare genius in the playing of daniil trifonov he becomes the music fusing himself to the instrument and the works forging unified art with the tools of a keyboard and masterful compositions the almost 29 year old s matinee performance last sunday at chicago s symphony center marked the second time i ve had the privilege of coronavirus coping february 14 2020 by ryan libel in uncategorized leave a comment mutter and orkis play beethoven january 27 2020 by ryan libel in reviews 1 comment i discovered the beethoven sonatas for violin and piano via youtube recordings anne sophie mutter and renowned pianist lambert orkis recorded the cycle of 10 works back in 1998 at a series of live concerts in paris the album that resulted won a grammy in 2000 and somehow about 8 years ago the whole series from bach to the boy paganini november 29 2019 by ryan libel in lesson notes uncategorized 3 comments in this past week s lesson as we have for months teacher and i played the bach concerto for two violins the final piece in suzuki book four together happily i did better than ever despite having a rather lackluster practice record the week before when we finished she said i know you ll keep working on rudolph buchbinder and beethoven november 12 2019 by ryan libel in reviews uncategorized 1 comment during its current 2019 2020 season the chicago symphony orchestra is commemorating beethoven s 250th birthday which is technically in december 2020 which will be in the cso s 2020 2021 season but who s quibbling by programming a staggering number of the composer s works i wish i could see them all but i m pleased to be off to a reading music and shifting june 5 2019 by ryan libel in memory practice notes leave a comment violin music is often annotated with fingerings that amongst other things indicate when position shifting is necessary suzuki books do a lot of marking fingerings for beginners but other scores do it too as i ve progressed i ve gained more and more ability to do shifting on the fly while it s been slow going as hilary hahn with the cso may 19 2019 by ryan libel in reviews leave a comment there s a list of legendary violinists and then there s a list of the best violinists right now on that second list hilary hahn is at the very top i was thrilled to get to see her play alongside the chicago symphony last night under the baton of marin alsop the baltimore symphony orchestra conductor older posts follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow categories lesson notes 128 linguistics 10 memory 18 modern family 36 musical 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