POST 10... SUMMARY OF MY SEMESTER...

Hi, little friends! How are you?

In this post I going to talk about what my year has been like until now.

As a general balance, I could say that it has been good.

For many reasons.

One of the main reasons has been love.

At the end of last year I hated playing the violin.

I was very unmotivated with everything I was doing in my life.

I did not like music anymore and I did not like the violin either.

But I started playing in a band, where I met a person who is now my boyfriend.

He helped me fall in love again with my instrument.

After that, everything has been a lot of musical learning.

I'm playing in many bands, and I enjoy being a musician.

But not everything has been so good.

I think it's because of the natural balance of life.

My boyfriend has a strange disease that is very painful. and has a life expectancy of 15 years more.

To think about that makes me sad, but we love each other and while we are together we will continue making music and drinking beer.

This is my story.

I hope that all of you do very well in this end of the semester.

A big hug to all.

Bye .

POST 9... "CANTATA SANTA MARÍA DE IQUIQUE"

Hello dear classmates!

In this post with a free theme I decided to talk about the “Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique.”

You probably know her.

It is a beautiful musical work and at the same time sad because it tells a sad fact that happened in our country.

This cantata was composed in 1969 by the Chilean composer Luis Advis  and was interpreted by the Chilean band called Quilapallún.

In this musical work is narrated the terrible massacre that occurred in 1907 at the Santa Maria de Iquique School.

the story is overwhelming because of the cruelty and injustice of the facts.

the Cantata Santa Maria de Iquique is a really complex and wonderful work, it contains the influence of Chilean folk music and classical music. in addition to a narrator who tells the story in between instrumental interventions.

It is a work that makes me cry with emotion and anger every time I listen to it because it contains a very powerful message.

100 years after the massacre a group of musicians from Chilean rock bands paid homage to the cantata and performed a version called Cantata rock Santa Maria de Iquique.

I leave the link to be heard.

Bye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbnrNCyMs-I&list=PLdhJmsoxoH2whV4YZlG0blBeOJhvYNaF3

POST 8... THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THIS SEMESTER...

Hello, dear partners!

In this publication I will tell you the most interesting thing I have learned this semester.

The truth is that this semester I have not learned anything interesting in college.

everything I've learned this year has been thanks to the people I've met to work on different musical projects outside the university.

Lately I have been working on the production of many albums and collaborating with many outstanding artists from the world of Chilean popular music.

The most important thing I have learned this year have been many things regarding the way of playing new music.

First, I had to learn a lot about European, Arabic, Indian folklore, etc. to play in bands of world music.

I had to learn to play gypsy music.

I had to learn a lot about Latin American music.

and the most difficult thing for me has been learning to improvise and compose especially that kind of music.

This whole learning process has been very fun.

And soon we will release an album with my bands.

everyone is invited.

Good luck!

bye.

POST 5... MY FAVOURITE PHOTO.

Hello partners!!
I going to write a post that was pending since a few weeks ago.

It's my favourite photo.

This photo was taken exactly on december 26th of last year.
We had a party after a friend´s work to celebrate Christmas.

It was taken in a photo studio of a friend. he took it with a professional camera.

In this photo I'm with my boyfriend drinking beers.

The idea of this photo was to give it to somo bandmates as a gift to inaugurate their new home.
As a joke.

I really like this picture because after all that party and the photo session, my love relationship began with the person that appears in the photo.

I use it as a profile picture of my social networks.

I think it captured our true essence as people and as good life partners.

I´m very happy and we always drink beer.

bye!!

Hello!!

For this post, I decided talk about a brilliant violinist (in my opinion).
Her name Janine Jansen,and I think that she is one of the best violinist in those time.

Janine Jansen is a violinist and violist. She was born in 1978 in Soest in the Netherlands.
She was born into a musicians' family.
She started her violin studies when she was 6 years old.

Janine  Jansen emerged in 2001 as a sloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, where she performed the violin concert of Brahms. She opened the BBC Proms, in 2005.

She has a very special way of playing the violin.
For this reason she is a reference for me in may career.

She doesn´t play like all violinists. She is very strong in her interpretations and that makes me admire her much more.

She is very beautiful and talented .

(I make 1000 cakes for her forever)

 My fvourite performance of Janine Jansen is the concert for violin and orchestra of Max Bruch.

I think that It´s one of the best.
In this performance, Jansen can demonstrate all her passion and strength as violinist. Also, that concert is very beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxZbVwrGOrc&t=346s