A Kiwi Cellist in China

The life & times, ups & downs, of a Kiwi / Australian cellist in Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Music for Africa

Last week I was complaining to one of my orchestra compatriots that I was likely to finish my contract having only played a single symphony... Now it appears the orchestra is trying to play the entire symphonic repertoire all at once. Here is a list of the music we're expected to have prepared by the end of the month (in-between some other concerts of lite, easy music like Beethoven's Eroica Symphony...):

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Schumann 4th Symphony
Strauss Til Eulenspiegel
Beethoven 7th Symphony
Beethoven 4th Symphony
Brahms 3rd Symphony
Wu Zuqiang 3 Pieces for String Orchestra
Chopin 1st Piano Concerto
Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto
Prokofieff 2nd Piano Concerto
Tschaikovsky 1st Piano Concerto
Chpoin 2nd Piano Concerto
Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto
Ravel Piano Concerto
Beethoven 3rd Piano Concerto
Prokofieff 3rd Piano Concerto
Grieg Piano Concerto
Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto
Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Beethoven 1st Piano Concerto
Mozart Piano Concerto in C
Liszt 1st Piano Concerto
Brahms 1st Piano Concerto
Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto
and some chinese piece with a name i cant read...

Now I know i promised some posts about our extraordinary tour of Kashgar and Karamay and the guest Italian conductor whose Spanish wife we all wanted to kidnap... I think if I time my practice right I’ll have a small break between 4 and 4:15am on Monday morning - I'll try to squeeze some writing in then... now where did I put that red-bull?

Posted By charlesbrooks at 8:32 PM 2 comments

2 Comments:

All your comments, but particularly the last 2 blogs, are brilliant! I have so much to say in response, but this is probably not the best place to say it...
However, unless the parts are in the music library upcoming-performances-drawers, then you'll not be playing them this fortnight =)
Missing you loads!
Rx
(ps. I'm permanent now, hurrah!)

By Rhylla, at 2:27 PM  

:-)
chen

By Anonymous, at 9:16 AM  

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