Oboe last night. Bass violin tonight.

Working the scales. Working Beethoven's 5th, movement 2. Rosin up the bow!

I've traveled all over this world
And now to another I go
And I know that good quarters are waiting
To welcome old Rosin the Bow
To welcome old Rosin the Bow
To welcome old Rosin the Bow
And I know that good quarters are waiting
To welcome old Rosin the Bow.
When I'm dead and laid out on the counter
A voice you will hear from below
Saying "Send down a hogshead of whiskey
To drink with old Rosin the Bow"
To drink with old Rosin the Bow"
To drink with old Rosin the Bow"
Saying "Send down a hogshead of whiskey
To drink with old Rosin the Bow".

Then get a half dozen stout fellows
And stack them all up in a row
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles
To the memory of Rosin the Bow
To the memory of Rosin the Bow
To the memory of Rosin the Bow
Let them drink out of half gallon bottles
To the memory of Rosin the Bow.

Then get this half dozen stout fellows
And let them all stagger and go
And dig a great hole in the meadow
And in it put Rosin the Bow
And in it put Rosin the Bow
And in it put Rosin the Bow
And dig a great hole in the meadow
And in it put Rosin the Bow.

Then get ye a couple of bottles
Put one at me head and me toe
With a diamond ring scratch upon them
The name of old Rosin the Bow
The name of old Rosin the Bow
The name of old Rosin the Bow
With a diamond ring scratch upon them
The name of old Rosin the Bow.

I've only this one consolation
As out of this world I go
I know that the next generation
Will resemble old Rosin the Bow
Will resemble old Rosin the Bow
Will resemble old Rosin the Bow
I know that the next generation
Will resemble old Rosin the Bow.

I fear that old tyrant approaching
That cruel remorseless old foe
And I lift up me glass in his honor
Take a drink with old Rosin the Bow
Take a drink with old Rosin the Bow
Take a drink with old Rosin the Bow
And I lift up me glass in his honor
Take a drink with old Rosin the Bow.

Mac

How about a little Mahler 1? :D

And he wrote it at age 28! Makes me feel like a little turd! Great call GoddessOfGuinness!

Mac

This morning's Washington Post had a review of his recital on Tuesday night. The reviewer compared him to YoYo Ma and Perlman. In fact, he played the Carmen Fantasy by Franz Waxman, which was originally written for Heifetz! Must've been amazing.

The review's here, if you're interested: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61704-2005Mar23.html

Great bassist!

to you, Mac? It does to me. :-)

http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym5.html

Great tastes of all four movements. Listen and weep.