Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Duet

My father-in-law Dobby is a big classical music fan. As such, he takes violin lessons. As you know, I also take violin lessons. Because of this common interest, he has invited me to learn a duet that we will perform together in several weeks.

Here's what the duet is supposed to sound like:



Advanced, right?

We'll have to see what happens. There's a good chance that we won't sound quite like these two. However, I am hoping that we sound as good as the pair of six year-olds I found playing the piece on YouTube. I told Dobby that although those upstarts might be good at hitting the notes, they probably won't bring the emotional intensity to the piece that we will.

2 comments:

LH said...

This is super exciting. I hope you videotape the duet. I would love to hear it.
Fist of 5.... how hard is it to play violin?

KC said...

Playing the violin is very do-able. You can twinkle twinkle within a lesson. So, I'm going to say THREE on the fist of five. Easy to get started, but harder to sound good. If you know how to read music a little bit, then you can play some songs on the violin.

Maybe you should take some lessons???