Points of View by Jannum Kruidhof - it's on YouTube!
It's been a while since this concert. It doesn't make it any less awesome. To be honest, when I first got the score - about two weeks before concert - I did a bit of a deer-in-headlights impression when looking at the rythms, because as catchy as it sounds, the first time you look at it it's gibberish. At least, if your sightreading skills are equal to mine. Then I girded up my loins, so to speak (although I'm not entirely certain a woman's supposed to do that. Pretty sure th
An Intermezzo of Finland
Apparently, I can’t get enough of the Nordic Countries. I would’ve said Scandinavia, but I’ve been told off too often about Finland not being part of it – I really should have paid better attention in geography, because in my head it really does, and evidently I don’t care enough to actively change this mindset. Don’t tell anyone. In any case – Finland! Filled with Fins, as is to be expected, but most importantly containing Elisabeth St-Cyr, Violinist Extraordinaire, who I ha
Off to Finland - Concert in Kangasniemi
It's quite an interesting experience to see a newspaper article about yourself that you can't read. However, I know what it says (or rather, what it's supposed to say), so understanding it is less of an issue. The violinist Elisabeth St-Cyr, who is as brilliant as she is beautiful, arranged for a concert in Kangasniemi, Finland, and since I was her full-time accompanist at the time, I rather predictably accompanied her. Our programme consisted of French and French-Canadian re
