I think very frequently about my drab dead inside look I rocked all of high school, and it's pairing low expressiveness. Ignoring neurodivergent reasons to keep a still and stern face...
Be me, plays viola for seven years and is in the high school orchestra
Become first chair through being the longest playing violist
Loves it, plays passionately and attends every performance
Wins a few awards participating in a quartet on the side
Lose several violist to graduations
New violist is tone deaf and non self aware
New violist is annoying af, but she got the spirit
We do our performance tests to reset the chairs for the semester
I am given second chair, and the LITERAL tone deaf person is given first chair
Other first chairs complain because the tone deaf person is also rhythm deaf and the violas start off to many songs, so now we're always starting off beat
New first chair goes into every solo late and is always out of tune
I ask the teacher what I was lacking to be demoted
The teacher informs me I play perfectly, but didn't have a passionate enough expression or movement, and the new viola looked to be loving every minute
Be me, daily nightmare disorder since age five, actively homeless with abusive mother, dirt poor, chronic pain, severely underweight, just lost my favorite family member (my fourth close family to die in under three years), and neurodivergent
Experiences skill regression from this very moment
"The Romantic era (1820-1900) was the golden age of the virtuoso, where the most difficult music would be performed with nonchalant ease. Instrumentation became even more prominent, with orchestras growing to higher numbers than ever before."
There is a new single available form my album! :) would love it if you let me know what you think! This is also one of my compositions, it's for alto flute, contrabass flute and strings :)
I hope you enjoy it! :D The full album will be released later this year :)
The Cal Poly Pomona Philharmonic of @cppmusic did a FANTASTIC #performance of my #originaltune “Greek Dance” (String Orchestra Edition) this past Tuesday night!
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo in E-flat Major, RV 251, III. Allegro. Performed by Giuliano Carmignola, violin, and Andrea Marcon/Venice Baroque Orchestra on period instruments.