Monthly Archives: October 2012

Oktoberstämman

By lydia | Published: October 28, 2012

What better way to celebrate the beginning of fall break than with a festival? Most of us spent Saturday in Uppsala at the Oktoberstämman with concerts, dances, workshops, and jamming. Headliners for this year included Björn Ståbi and Bengan Jansson, Pers-Hans Olsson and his son Alexander, Torbjörn and Pär Näsbom, and an arm-long list of […]

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Violina!!!

By lydia | Published: October 27, 2012

It is official, and very exciting: I am definitely buying the beautiful amazing new 5-string violin that Per Klinga built for me. It has his distinctive baroque-styled fingerboard and tailpiece, and a one-piece maple back that looks like a sunburst. The body is 5mm longer than a standard violin; I think also the bouts are […]

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Lovely day for a walk

By lydia | Published: October 26, 2012

After all our hard work on the concert, we feel like we’ve definitely earned our fall break. We’re off duty for a whole week as of lunchtime Friday. Andrea and I went for a nice afternoon walk with our friend Matthias, a fiddler who was in this course last year and whom we met in […]

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Fall concert awesomeness

By lydia | Published: October 26, 2012

Our first student concert was a smashing success. I was really impressed by how well everything pulled together: complicated arrangements with the entire group, small ensembles, instrument changes, introductions, medleys with songs,… all of it with everyone working together, having fun and seeming, by and large, pretty calm. Everyone had some responsibilities for leading a […]

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Ethno on the road

By lydia | Published: October 17, 2012

The day after we got home from Linköping, we had visitors. ESI was a stop for the 2012 tour of Ethno on the road, a group of 5 young musicians selected from the Ethno summer music camp, plus 2 program leaders who collaborated with them to create the touring show. (Ethno is “the world’s largest […]

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Linköping videos, ESI spelmanslag

By lydia | Published: October 17, 2012

There are videos from our set! Two of our three tunes. The recording quality (both audio & video) is a bit squinty, and evidently the button-pusher had to do something else first at the beginning of each tune, but if you use your imagination you can pretty much get the idea. D-moll schottis av Konsta […]

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