The Meridian String Quartet, www.meridianstring.com, is awe-inspired with beautiful music this coming Valentine's day. The Dallas Symphony, www.dallassymphony.com, is doing a Valentine's concert called Romance and Rachmaninoff. The Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto no. 1 will be featured on the program. This piece is arguably one of the hardest pieces to play on piano (an instrument with varied, complex, and considerable repertoire). Rachmaninoff wrote three hard piano concertos. Not only do you have to be a good performer, you also need to have large enough hands to reach those 11ths and 12ths!
Thank goodness I play violin and viola! While these instruments are difficult (20 something years of playing and I'm still working at it), I feel somewhat accomplished at the instrument. I enjoy playing at all the wonderful weddings coming up.
Marcela and I, www.meridianquartet.com/aboutus have the opportunity to play at SMU in Dallas in two weeks for a young pianist's spring recital. This is an exciting opportunity, as he is playing TWO Mozart Piano Concertos.
Of course, the highlight of playing this month for myself is performing with the Las Colinas Symphony! Marcela, Drew, and I will be working with the symphony to perform in the 5th annual movie quiz, which features music from exciting films, as well as Vivaldi's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. www.lascolinassymphony.org. The musicians of the symphony will be performing in Las Colinas/Irving, Garland, and Arlington!
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