Cellos and Lightbulbs

[qos]

My daughter told me that it wasn't a school assembly that left her enthralled with the cello, as I had thought, it was Julian Lloyd Weber's performance of "Variations On A Theme By Paganini" during the Royal Albert Hall Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Weber, which we have on DVD and enjoy watching together. It's a fiery piece, with a lot of drama and variety. In fact, it's quite possibly the only truly dramatic solo instrumental she's ever witnessed.

I'm glad that it made such a powerful impression on her. She told me this evening that if she starts practicing now, she will be able to play that piece, that well, when she is his age.

Go, girl!

(I don't suppose any of you friends have Weber's Variations on CD?)

Comments

[bbovenguy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'm not familiar with that piece. I know Rachmaninoff's Paganini variations, but that's for piano. Who did one for cello?

At any rate, whether your daughter's ever able to play it or not, I hope she has fun learning!

[iswari.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who played cello in college. I remember lying on his bed listening to him practice.

Anyway, the cello is a beautiful instrument and her enthusiasm is inspiring!

[toesontheground.livejournal.com]

How lucky for her to have felt so inspired :)

[preacha.livejournal.com]

No, but toilinthelight (http://www.livejournal.com/users/toilinthelight/) could make you one if you send him the dvd.

I think cello rocks.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I would love a copy on CD. There are several performances on that recording that have never been released on CD that I would love to have as well as the Variations.

What software does he use?

[preacha.livejournal.com]

Um, I am not even knowledgable enough to answer this. He uses Final Cut Pro to edit film and video, but I don't know what he'd use for this. He said he's never done it before, but he thinks it would be easy.

Send him a comment if you like and ask him. He is nice and friendly, I promise.

[preacha.livejournal.com]

He said he could make a .wav file of the dvd that could be played on any cd player.

[qos.livejournal.com]

I finally did this! Thanks!

[preacha.livejournal.com]

Do you mean you finally sent the dvd to us, or that you finally just wrote to Mike?

We have Netflix, so I tried earlier this week to look up the dvd you were talking about and see if I could just put it in our queue. Is it, "Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration?" If so, it's already on its way here, so you don't have to send us your copy.

Let me know! Have a great weekend.

[qos.livejournal.com]

Finally wrote to Mike.

It is indeed the Royal Albert Hall Celebration.

Thanks so much for doing this!