After a hectic number of days, I have returned.
Pro Corda was fun and seeing everyone was great once again. Musically it was alright. The Dvorak went quite well and we played the second movement in the Cream Tea concert on the penultimate day, and the finale in the concert on the last day. The Bargiel turned out to be a bit of joke and no-one else knew it at all so our coach (Jan Schulmeister, second violin in The Wihan String Quartet) cut almost half of it out- shame. In orchestra we played the Death and the Maiden which was good, but would have been more successful if there were only four players. Enough of Pro Corda.
I also just returned today from Devon where I stayed with my grandparents. There is not much to report from this journey apart from that he is kindly going to start making me a Viola. I am already playing on both violin and viola made by Peter Lamb, but the viola is a very early (number 4- he has just completed number 23) and certainly is not as good as his later instruments. I had a go on number 14, which is a viola that was originally in a pair made for Herbert Downes, and this was a very nice instrument.
School starts tomorrow.
As I write this, I am listening to: Haydn: String Quartet in D «The Lark», Op. 64 No. 5 (Aeolian Quartet)
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