On a journey: East Berlin, Germany

On a journey: East Berlin, Germany

Thursday, March 22, 2007

New apartment and address

As much as I love my landlords and this current apartment, I have to move because my lease is up. I did manage to find a nice place near the Musik Hochschule. If you want to mail me after March 31, here's the new address: Geeta Abad Brahmsstrasse 11 32756 Detmold GERMANY I no longer have the same home phone number, either. But my cell phone/mobile/handy/however you call it will remain the same as it is now. We recorded for nearly seven hours yesterday. We = Ensemble Sarabande, a student-formed baroque group that was started by Eric, a half-Spanish, half-German violinist who studied at the Hochschule. The players are all good and enthusiastic musicians. I played one concert with them and then Eric asked me if I'd be around in March to record some Handel pieces for a CD. The Hochschule's sound engineering institute is one of the best in Europe, so we were able to use really good equipment in a professional setting. I think the CD is going to sound fantastic. Although it was difficult at first (and still often is), I am really enjoying playing baroque music with a period bow. It is liberating because you can create proper articulations with greater ease and the resulting tone is more pure which suits the music better. The difficulty, though, is intonation; a pure sound will surface any faulty intonation, so intervals have to be as balanced as possible. Tiring as it was, I was happy to have played with the group.

Monday, March 19, 2007

Photo link

Hi, I've created a photo website. It's a work in process, but here's the link: http://geetaabad.shutterfly.com/action/ Enjoy!

Saturday, March 17, 2007

The Journals of France & Belgium

Hi everyone! Here are the details of my travels through French-speaking western Europe (well...minus Switzerland). The entries start on my first date of travels - February 21. So you will have to scroll down and find the entry below. Enjoy and feel free to comment!

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Le flâneur

I have returned to Detmold after three weeks of incredible traveling. I do believe that this journey was one of the best I've ever taken. I've got an audition coming up so I don't have the time at the moment to properly update the livejournal with all the details, but that's my project for this coming weekend, so hopefully before March 22 (the date my lovely parents arrive in Germany), you'll all be able to indulge in French Western Europe. I am also creating a photography website because, well, Facebook just isn't cutting it for me. I will post that link on here in due time. In the meantime, here's an intro toutes les choses françaises with the second movement from Ravel's String Quartet performed by the Hagen Quartet...perhaps one of the best recordings/performances I've heard of it. Enjoy :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xvwPMuCZEU