Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Not So Rockin'

New Junior Quartet started this morning (all grade 5 girls, aged 9-10).  Three of them were in the junior string ensemble (called Vivo) last year, but they're all in the next one up this year, called Corelli.  The following was actually heard in the real time of grade 5 girls, who don't wait for one to finish before jumping in and telling me their own version, but for ease of writing and reading, I've separated them a bit.

Viola:  Oh my goodness, Corelli is so hard!  The music -
Violin 2: It's so much harder than Vivo.
Cello: We're doing this piece, and it's, just, there was this one bar -
Violin 1: I was in it last year... I don't think it's that hard...
Cello: So, this piece has one bar - [general giggling] - no!  I mean, ha - that would be funny, if it was just this one bar for the whole piece -
Viola [demonstrating in a very 'viola' fashion]: blah... blah ... blah ... blah...
Cello: No, I mean, okay, so  - oh, the piece, it's called Rockin' Rondo - which, by the way, it is soooo not rockin' - and...

And after that they got even more distracted with playing different bits of music and having music fall off the stand... etc... etc...

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