Violin

I have been spending the past thirty-some-odd days practicing violin almost exclusively. I have taken out my viola to teach lessons, and I have taken out my viola d'amore to work on writing music, but my musical heart seems to have flown off and migrated to the violin.

And now I'm really exploring the repertoire. Yesterday I started working on the Mendelssohn Concerto, which is really a piece of music about the violin, and its various voices. I worked on the Concerto twenty-five years ago, but didn't have the physical strength or sense of balance needed to make it sing, and I had no idea what the tonal and expressive possibilities were. Now that I have the physical strength and coordination to find the music in it, I am overwhelmed by what playing the piece does for me. No wonder it continues to survive and thrive.

The Beethoven and Bruch Concertos are on my stand too.