CELEBRATION CONCERT AND CLINIC

CELEBRATION CONCERT AND CLINIC
THE PREUCILS ARE COMING! THE PREUCILS ARE COMING!

Event: NTSA Celebration Concert
When: October 13-14
Where: Lubbock, TX

NTSA members in Lubbock are excited to be hosting the Celebration Concert this year. We’re planning to give everyone a taste of real West Texas hospitality! For starters, Bill and Doris Preucil have agreed to come and be our guest clinicians. Every participant, including parents and teachers will have an opportunity to work with one of them. Since everyone will be traveling a fair distance in order to attend, we’re working hard to raise money to offset registration fees. Our local program includes only strings, so unless someone else wants to step up to the plate and help organize, these are the only instruments that will be represented at this year’s event. Rosetta Springer and Ann Bowman are working on the possibility of including piano.

Download the invitation letter and tentative schedule

Brochure coming soon

Be prepared for the Celebration Concert

Our North Texas Suzuki Association Celebration Workshop and Concert is scheduled for October 13 and 14 this year in Lubbock, TX. The concert will take place on the 14th, while there will be string masterclasses on the evening of the 13th.

The concert was originally planned to be in Amarillo, but there was a scheduling problem with an important local activity, so the Lubbock teachers gaciously agreed to host it there. I will post the information and registration brochure when available.

You can check the NTSA website for updates on this and other activities at http://ntxsuzukimusic.org.

Amazing Grace on Violin - Music to listen to

Here is a somewhat dreamed version of Amazing Grace. Totally "improvised," it came out of what would be called jam sessions with my friend, the extraordinary pianist, Denny Hahn.

Denny and I had discover a few years ago that we really could "sinc" and connect musically. One day, we just started to play ... just play some great well-known Gospel hymns. We just let ourselves be directed by the Spirit, and... wow, it was good. Later we polished and defined how many times we would play the verse, chorus, etc. and how we would shape the mood. That was it. A totally impro-arrangement, nothing written down except for the song's sequence.

This is part of a Medley of hymns we did and played in a concert. Amazing Grace was the last piece.

Click on this link to listen to it (it's a wma file):

http://violinsong.com/audio/Amazing-Grace.wma

Youth Concert at the Meyerson - May 21, 2006 - 7:30 PM

Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
34th Season 2005-2006
Richard Giangiulio, Artistic Director & Conductor

Sunday, May 21, 2006, 7:30pm
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

The Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra presents a concert on May 21st at the Meyerson Symphony Center beginning at 7:30pm. The concert will feature violinist, Jun Iwasaki. The Meyerson is located at Flora and Pearl.

Season Finale Featuring Jun Iwasaki, violin

Mozart - Marriage of Figaro
Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Featuring Jun Iwasaki, violin

Call the GDYO office at 214-528-7747 to order season tickets or single tickets, or for more information
For ticket information and directions to the Meyerson, click here.

Violin Technique: Fast Playing

My teacher, Sergei Gorbenko (from the Russian violin school) always had a quite simple solution to most problems with fast passages: Schradick. It is like his antidote for all dexterity problems. I always though that sounded very simplistic. BUT IT WORKS. Schradick exercises, practiced properly, work in many diferent levels. It can train the hand muscles for akward passages, increase accuracy of intonation, promote dexterity, and even bow control under difficult left hand difficulties.

I also have a very effective way to get warmed-up quickly and get my fingers in shape for fast violin virtuoso passages(for me, at least). I play a series of trills with all fingers in all possible finger patterns, with increasing speed on all strings. I do this at least in first, second, and third position. It will take you a few minutes and may be boring, but at the end, you will be ready to face those dreaded passages.

Rigo.

Great Greenville Performance!

Hi,

My thanks to parents and students of the Greenville ISD Suzuki Strings program for working on practicing diligently to a good Suzuki violin performance at Greenville High School. All students attending did a great job in what all attending thought was a very impressive performance.

Every student followed the leader and did his/her best.

I am very proud of you!

Rigo.

PS. I will post some of the performance's pictures soon.

Violin Lessons in the Dallas Area

For Suzuki Violin Lessons in the East Dallas Area, contact Rigo Murillo, registered Suzuki violin instructor.

214-703-8956

or go to

SuzukiViolinLessons.com.


Areas Served: Rockwall, Rowlett, Garland, Plano, Richardson, Allen, Mesquite, Royse City, Fate, Greenville, Irving, Dallas, Tyler ..

A Wonderful Suzuki Violin Book!

I have been studying Jennifer Burton's new Suzuki violin book: Sharpen Your Tools. I have been pleasantly impressed by the amount of thought she put into it. This Suzuki technique book will help in practicing violin technique by giving the parent and student four to six activities aimed to strengthen a specific set of skills, all on one page. The skills covered in Sharpen Your Tools range from posture to left hand technique, to tone, to bow control. The book is focused on the "pre-twinkle" level throughout the early book 1 level.

This book is a wonderful asset for parents, students, and teachers alike. If you are serious about your child's progress of his/her violin skills (especially in Suzuki early level), I strongly recommend you to get this book and show it to your teacher. I am sure there will be a lot of activities and exercises from this book that you and your child will benefit from.

To order the book, contact Jenny Burton at:

Burton Suzuki Studio
P.O. Box 570007
Dallas, TX 75357

Email: sharpenyourtools@hotmail.com

Until next time,

Rigo Murillo

Ebay Violin deal? $20.00 !! ?? Beware ! !

Beware !!

If you have seen one of those "deals" of shiny Stradivarius violins, two bows, "deluxe" case, etc. You might be up for an adventure.

I have had multiple people come up to me saying: "I just found this deal on ebay!" and they get really exited. My answer is almost always: How much? Then, the person tells the price... $80... $50... $40, $30, $20 !! And I say ... NO !! Believe it or not, you may very well get ripped off with that deal.

Why?

I will tell you soon...

Until then,

Blessings.

Rigo