Holiday Fun

Hi everyone!

Thanks so much for your great stories and thoughts about conductors – keep them coming – I could use a few more! This blog on conductors will be fun to write.

With grading final exams and preparing for the holidays, I don’t have time to do a “real” (as in “never-ending”) blog entry this month, but here are a few videos I’ve found on YouTube recently that may be of interest.

This one of our next guest artist, Lynn Harrell, is absolutely wonderful. (That's him on the right. The concert is on
Saturday, February 7th at the Cohan Center) This is his "e-greeting" to his teacher, Orlando Cole, for Cole's 100th birthday.

Here’s a very young Julie Andrews as Cinderella, from the 1950s television broadcast.

Fast forward to 2008, and here is the most musically talented Hennessee – my brother Paul – playing one of his compositions on a fundraising video for his school in New York City. (You’ll have to click through on the link below.) BTW – don’t give money – I’m sure the Spence School has plenty of donors!

http://www.spenceschool.org/holidaycard/index.aspx?bid=70&user=16021&forward=yes

Here’s a video set to Michael Buble’s version of “My Grown-Up Christmas List.”

And finally, here’s the late, great Odetta, movin’ it on.

Happy Holidays,

DH

PS. Since it’s the Holidays, here are several viola jokes:

How many positions does a violist use? Three: 1st, 3rd, and oh *@#%!

What’s the difference between a viola and a lawn mower? You can tune a lawn mower.

What's another difference between a viola and a lawn mower? The lawn mower vibrates.

What’s yet another difference between a viola and a lawn mower? Nobody 

minds if you borrow their viola.

Why are viola jokes so short? So violinists can remember them.

See you next year!