Chris Anthony

MUSIC

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Their excellent technique https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/1089834851181237/
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Great composers and how it feels to play their music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUS-YreXpZk&index=14&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
Chicken fur elise https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/252437685438015/
Things music students say https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/259438804737388/
Bad violin habits https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/281480502467961/
Pachebel chicken https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/1555046231266406/
Guess the violinist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLDw9m_4fg
Guess the tempo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWMl1zclOk

Guess composer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj70v4t5PD0
Types of violin teacher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSn-rvtfNAw
Why the violin is so difficult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRzbY_AdaM
Types of musicians mums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvokwz5PbI4&index=3&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
What not to do as a violinist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V45Bh2JQhk&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM&index=7
Performance anxiety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHPA8ICwTUM&index=11&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
Vibrato problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Fp3N3xiIU&index=12&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
How not to be leader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r52RNDHLzAg&index=29&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
Perfect pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz18hxcaR34&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM&index=20
How not to be a conductor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvS87skyfZ4&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM&index=23
What musicians do in the pit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpG-uAc-WmA&index=24&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
Viola jokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOGDF9FjCKU&index=25&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM
Brilliant young fiddlers https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/1482424878528542/
Fasted fiddler https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/617919168604151/
Ling ling workout https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/226873564901381/

Menuhin competition Christian li https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/1480377475399949/
Faking https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/2185278125057494/
Bach  v  Beethoven https://www.facebook.com/TwoSetViolin/videos/322112868591941/
Playing great music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUS-YreXpZk
How to be orchestra leader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r52RNDHLzAg
Problem of people with perfect pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dr5ch1gkQI&index=2&list=RDosRzbY_AdaM

 Eric is a friend I met at School about 60 years ago. He moved recently to Dorset and so had little choice about coming  at last to one of our concerts. The following (slightly edited) is from the ‘Pew Leaflet’ of St. George’s Church, Christchurch.

 Two thousand years ago St. John the Divine had a vision of The Kingdom of God which he wrote down in the Book of Revelation. So have I, but my vision was more recent and I'm writing it down now. His vision of the coming of The Kingdom involved violent struggles between the forces of Good and Evil, mythical beasts, cosmic events, lakes of fire and a new Kingdom coming down from on high. My less-spectacular vision came to me sitting on a hard seat in Romsey Abbey. The fact that it was a church doesn't really come into it, it could have been any large, indoor space. The occasion was a concert of works by twentieth century English composers, given by the City of Southampton Orchestra. My friend of long standing, Chris Anthony, was playing 'cello.

As the evening progressed I got to thinking about what was actually going on. There was all the physics of sound, vibrations in wood and brass, strings and percussion, transmission through the air, the biology of hearing - but more than that there was the human side.

Here were about sixty musicians from all different backgrounds, different ages, men and women playing different instruments, all working together to create a unique, musical happening. Each had his or her individual skills and accomplishments. They had obviously rehearsed conscientiously to interpret the dots on the pages according to the wishes of their conductor, with respect to the intentions of the composers, and together they created, by integration of their skills, rapturous, living music in the experience of their audience. To me this was a vision of the way people can work together, uniting their varied skills to create transcendent harmony and beauty. To me, it was a vision, a model, of the way men and women  can express love and create peace and justice in our sometimes sad world. When it happens it is what I think of as the Kingdom of God.

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