Vivaldi in the National Museum


In my Scotland Street post I mentioned my long-suffering teenagers, waiting after a morning of playing in a concert at the National Museum of Scotland while I took photos. Here's what they were working hard at - a concert featuring the music of Vivaldi. Their school has a community baroque orchestra, and two groups from it played recently for Sunday visitors to the National Museum. Here they're playing Vivaldi's concerto No. 11 in D minor for 2 violins, cello and strings. My daughter has longed to play this with an orchestra ever since we attended the Suzuki World Convention in Turin, when it was played (from memory) by hundreds of young violinists, violists and cellists from 28 countries - the common language of music. My daughter is at the extreme left in the front row of standing violinist, and my son is second from right in the two standing violists. The acoustic in the museum is glorious, and the orchestra really enjoyed playing there.

In taking these shots I realised even more my photographic limitations. The museum has beautiful stonework, but I need to find out about exposures and all that stuff. This is hard for me - it involves numbers.

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  1. It must have been a beautiful concert ! "Bravo" to your son and daughter ;)

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  2. I bet it sounded wonderful.

    I'm pretty sure that Hopeman sandstone, from Clashach quarry, was used in that building.

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  3. I am a fan of Vivaldi!
    Nice souvenir for your children :)

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  4. You can´t be good in all kind of photos. Seems to me you are more in to landscapes and bigger views but details and portraits are a bit unknown territory. It´s like that for me too.

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  5. I think portraits are much more difficult than landscapes and group shots are just about impossible. And talk to me about numbers! I've been playing with f/stops and ISO and shutter speed for months trying to figure it out. I'm not normally stupid but I've been incredibly dense when it comes to camera settings. I guess that's why I like my Canon Rebel XTI with little pictures on the dial for settings. But I am trying to learn more and when I get it right the pictures turn out better.

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  6. I think that photo does justice to the sandstone (it is sandstone isn't it?)

    And i bet you're better at numbers than you think you are. Music is just numbers in artform. Or something.

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  7. Wow! and your daughter plays the harp too! You are one amazing mom with amazing kids.
    One of my best school memories was playing the flute with the LA's All City High School Band at the Greek Theater in Hollywood. I wasn't all that good (but good enough to make the cut) but sitting in the midst of so many talented kids and being "inside" all that sound just made me giddy. John Phillip Sousa never sounded so good.

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  8. What memories this photo elicited. My daughter played cello when she was young but stopped when she discovered horses. My son studied music all through high school and college and toured with his youth symphony group. These are such good memories.

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