I'm playing my violin in church in a few weeks which means I had to locate my violin, practice, and be reminded once again that I am no longer...shall we say, skilled? *laugh* *cry* Next time I feel myself getting too prideful about anything, I'll just dig up my senior piece and attempt to play it because I am now put. in. my. place.
Exhibit A: The Wieniawski Polonaise...
Exhibit B: My version of this piece today...
Aliens must have taken over my body in 2008 because the person I am now can NOT play the Wieniawski. Of course, it never sounded like Antal Zalai because that man IS an alien from another planet, but I did learn it once. Normally you don't start sweating in this piece until about the 4:00 minute mark (watch Antal above), but I get to that point within about 40 seconds now and it's all downhill from there. Oh well, it's been fun to visit Youtube and listen to the real deals play all my performance pieces instead.
After the initial shock of wow-I'm-so-rusty wore off, practicing again was great fun. Unfortunately, after a few minutes of practicing, my violin hickey returned, and I feel that this is ten times more awkward now than it was back in the day since of course no one questioned where it came from back then. Anyway, luckily the piece I picked for church is pretty harmless (famous last words). There are a few lines of double-stops and I probably will just play the top notes because aintnobodygottimeforthat. Jenny Oaks Baker, if you are reading this, I apologize.
Ooh! I'm so excited to hear you play! Piano, organ, violin - is there anything you CAN'T do?!
ReplyDeleteHaha we may have to add violin performances to the can't do list depending on how it goes in church. :)
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