Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! I'm a Violinist and doing what I love is often interestingly contrasted with the reality of getting to do what I love...
20 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
Just snatching some time between playing pieces for a Christmas recording! Today, we were supposed to have concerts at the church which our home base. In exchange for being able to use the church for recordings and rehearsals, we provide music for s...
18 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments bengy
This church in the small town of Zell aan der Pram is a place that I visited recently during a course in 2020. I was staying nearby and had a chance to listen to a concert in this charming little Catholic (?) church. The acoustics of the church...
15 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Last week, I had taken my Viola d'amore back to the luthier who had made it, to have a new bridge recut and fitted after it was a bit jury-rigged for a repair a couple of years ago. It's a bit of a trek to get out there, almost 2.5 hours by tr...
13 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
We finally picked up our Christmas tree... we tried to leave it later than last year (and the year before that...) as the trees start to shed quite a bit of pine needles... and there was that one year where it was definitely browning by the bi...
12 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Performances these days have been scaled down significantly in The Netherlands (and most of the world) due to the Coronavirus regulations. We have restricted numbers allowed (including performers) for the concerts, and the audience needs to bo...
11 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Sigh... a full day of editing amateur singers for a choir production. I'm doing this for the friend of my wife, who conduct a choir and I'm putting together one of the songs after they recorded all the parts individually. It's difficult thing to...
10 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Another instrument upkeep job that I've been putting off for quite some time... this time, it is for the Viola d'amore. This is a lovely instrument that was made for me about 5 years ago... based upon an original instrument that is housed in a m...
9 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
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8 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy
Due to the Coronavirus regulations in Netherlands, choirs are not able to rehearse in person at the moment... and the concerts are pretty much an impossibility. So, one of the choirs that my wife plays the piano for is doing a video with all the...
1 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy
Ahhhh.... memories of a past life, when concerts were still a very regular event! In the Netherlands, you often find orchestral and choir concert in the large churches of the Lutheran or Reformed splinters of Christianity. Actually, this concert...
