Concert at Code Abbey -D
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Hello, fellow programmers!
For those of you who have read my introduction here in the forum, you'd remember that I am a classically trained pianist who is now studying programming, and hoping to seek employment doing so sometime in the near future. Well, I've been wanting to get around to sharing some of my music, so I present for you an interpretation by a friend and myself of Rachmaninoff's Vocalise that we did about two years ago.My friend who's playing the violin was recently a programmer at Google here in California, and now he's studying for his Master's degree in Computer Science in San Diego. So I am quite jealous of him. Anyhow, take a break from racking your brains with code and enjoy some music!
Christopher Matthews, piano, and Devin Platt, violin, play Rachmaninoff's Vocalise
Enjoy,
Christopher P. Matthews
Christopher, Hi!
Great idea! And thanks for sharing the video! Honestly speaking, I am quite jealous to both you and Mr.Platt because you master two so differend crafts - music and programming. For me this is a good interpretation of Jesus' words "these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone" :)
I moreover feel envious because pieces by Rachmaninov are so complicated compared to basic tunes I know!
Regretfully I never had enough patience to learn Music. Nevertheless I dare to add to this Concerto the short video taken by my colleague:
Monti's Czardasz - by Anastasia Enina & Rodion Gorkovenko
M-me Enina is my wife, I'm sorry for I hardly can keep the speed while accompanying... :)
P.S. I can't express how pleased I am to see you reached another level and changed color once more recently!
Thanks for such videos!
Question to Rodion: You are using flamenko sitting position. Is it your main guitar sitting position or for accompanying at this video only?
Rodion - Very nice! Devin and I have played this piece together as well. I didn't know you were a guitarist!
Oh, Christopher, you are bit too kind :D
I do not dare to call myself "guitarist" - I only know how to strum a couple of chords, as you see, ha-ha - one can learn it in a week, I believe :)
>You are using flamenko sitting position
He-he, it is the first time I hear about "flamenko position" - usually I put the guitar further to right (left on the picture) but at this moment this was inconvenient since my wife was sitting close to me at this side...