“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” - Pablo Casals. Thank you, Mimi Rabson, and your wonderful musicians for speaking so beautifully and poetically to my heart.
“Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” Mimi Rabson, thank you for the magnificent and delightful presents.
This is great, thank you for sharing it with us. Probably too late but I'd love to hear you all do Rather Be by Clean Bandit, lots of strings in that song.
This is the best video of it. The Berklee promotional video covers up the euphoria of the first violinist at the end as she jumps up and down in excitement as she knows they just nailed it!
That "sand block" sound is a relatively new technique in string playing called "chopping". Check out Casey Driessen - the God of Chopping here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WStSTeLWg38.html and here's a live version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O3PUrkVQZ3c.html
