The schedule is now open until May. Don’t plan on going any further than the last day of May, because June is not yet open. If you want continuity in your lessons plan in time and be sure of a place.
Good news for planners from smartphone and tablet; there is now a link above the agenda. Both on the well-known celloles.com and on this website. When you click on this, everything goes smoothly. Don’t? Let me know! I have tested it. Thanks for your patience and feedback.
Playing together is the best thing there is, if you ask me! It was beautiful again in Amsterdam and also nice last week, beautiful music by Dotzauer (yes!) Bizet Bach and Haendel; great! This afternoon we will play the works in Havelte. This calls for more, more and more.
Night of Play Passion Corals
That’s why… Easter is coming, and what could be better than playing corals from the Matthew and John Passion by J.S. Bach together in the Passion time to Easter?
I hired someone to arrange and transpose six chorales for cello quartet. Hooray; they are now playable without thumb position 🙂 . Do you want to enter the tuneful Passion Time musically? The sadness and suffering in this baroque music, the serene and almost meditative feeling that the chorales can both? Do you want to see how you can get that soft tone, the warmth and “dolore” in your sound? Slide on! It works best if you have already mastered the great grip and lowered first finger. Do you doubt if this is a moment for you to play together? Just take contact with me and I’ll think with you.
On Thursday 18 April in Amsterdam from 18.00 to 20.00.
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In Havelte on Saturday 20 April from 14.00 to 16.00.
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Do you have a baroque stick? Take it with you because it is a nice challenge to make the coral style technically appropriate. I may have two baroque sticks left, in case you want to buy one. Ladies baroque cellists from the North, will you join us again? The costs for playing together in Amsterdam are € 35,00. I can place eight cellists there. In Havelte the contribution is € 25.00. Subscribe by emailing here.
Speaking about activities; the Cellowekend!
As you know, another cello weekend is planned in Havelte on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August. Ellis Moorman and I are your teachers and we are already busy looking for beautiful music. Maximum 24 registrations, divided into three groups. Probably a beginners group, think first position, maybe already with the big grip and lowered first finger. Plus a group that is already changing position and third an advanced group where some may go up to and including thumb position. In groups of up to eight cellists you can hear yourself well, Ellis and I can hear you well, and we can put levels together a bit. Of course there’s a tutti piece in which we come to a hurrah! mood. If you feel like playing together, slide on! The pieces are now being chosen.
The Celloweekend lasts from Saturday, August 17, 10.30 to about 17.30, after which there will be a dinner. On sunday we think about 10.00 till 16.30 and then have a nice chat.
Do you want to subscribe? Mail me via this link. For BlogPost readers who received this post in their mailbox, participation costs € 180.00, for non BlogPost readers € 199.00. This includes two lunches and a dinner and of course coffee, tea and delicious snacks and refreshments in between.
Tip: take your partner or family with you: they can take a nice walk here, and stay in the new fine hotel restaurant Ludiek in Havelte. Of course there are many B&B’s and hotels in the area, it is also nice to stay outside Havelte so that you can see some of the region from A to B. It is high season so be there on time. Tips will follow in a later blogpost.
The lesson location of the Celloweekend; our farm in Havelte, Drenthe, just past Meppel.
New cello’s in the studio
In this beautiful reddish-brown lacquered French cello by Marc Laberte, there’s a well repaired stacking and singing bar crack. Because of the good repair you don’t run any extra risk that the crack will open again, but it reduces the value of the cello enormously, giving you a beautiful sound for little money.
I myself also have a cello, from 1760, with a pile and song bar crack; that made my cello so affordable that I could ever buy it. So it’s nothing scary or anything, but an extra reason to try the cello to hear if it’s your sound. Are you interested? It now costs € 3,400.00.
Cello news
I heard from a member of the Concertgebouw Orchestra that bows with ivory are no longer allowed in America. So the strings need another bow for such a tour. Did you know that a cellist would rather play on a different cello than with a different stick? Another cello is often easier to “act” than another stick. This is such a collaboration, duo partner of your right hand, that using another stick for an important concert is very scary. Here a article about how they deal with the ivory law in England. From The Strad of course. Online subscriptions are possible.
About stress, stage fright, fear of failure when you “have to” play the cello in front of an audience. Or just during a workshop… This is an interesting topic…
Here is a nice article.
Rachmaninov said: ‘Why write for violin when you can write for cello?
A nice article about our friend the cello…
Movies and music: Have fun!
I can’t remember ever being in the movies with my husband Henk to watch a movie for adults. Last month it happened anyway; we went to Bohemian Rhapsody, the film about Queen. Chantal said it already and I joined in; a beautiful film. I enjoyed it so much. My childhood just came by; everything came back. And those Wembley shots that were original; goose bumps; I was 14 again… Here the Bohemian Rhapsody for cello quartet. I’ve got the pdf! Because I can’t add a pdf here anymore I put it in the member section of this site so you can view it. I once played it with a volunteer quartet of students! It’s fun!
Skyfall by Adele; I see here an arrangement for sale. Beautiful; exciting music….
I can never get enough of Bach for cello. That’s why I just ordered a bundle of chorales arranged for cello quartet. Hopefully this one will go with it! Highly recommended for the Celloweekend; nice for intonation and equal timbre. Soul-food…
Aaaaah… Melt! You’re never too yóng for Bach! Look at these young cellists. And how the front row looks back at what’s happening behind them, cute…
Want to play a nice tune with YouTube? In the YouTube description you will find the link to the sheet music.
https://youtu.be/g5nfUnFJInY
Sheet music recommended for the month
Ruben is at home as a set builder of all job markets. Thanks for installing these boards for the sheet music that came in Ruben!
Kummer duos for cello, unknown bundle.
New music inspires and so you see; you browse and take away; top! The recommendation of the month is this unfamiliar collection of Kummer for two cello’s. Not even available online in the Netherlands, so true import! € 18,00 for beautiful really good duo music.
There are two more solid lecterns in stock from the good Boston brand. So there are different versions on the market; this one is the sturdiest. If you want to save your own parcel post you can take one with you on lesson at € 26,50. (At bol.com about € 30,00)
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So far the news now. See you soon at class or during a workshop!
Friendly greeting,
Scarlett Arts!
06-18189005 | info@celloverkoop.nl
