tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142289462011-06-04T21:57:33.065-05:00the ability to reason is a wonderful thingDavisnoreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14228946.post-77846377279490823162008-07-30T09:42:00.006-05:002008-11-13T08:45:46.171-05:00

After much dripping of the faucet at the old white farmhouse I have decided to make another blog post. I have completed one year of teaching in Greenville, Texas and enjoyed every minute of it. I'm looking forward to another year of working with my students. They are always a lot of fun.One of the benefits of teaching is that you get to have the summer off, which I have almost used up. This post

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Ron Paul has cured my apathy.

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davisholden /at/ gmail /dot/ com

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After Branson I went to KC to see Carl and Tisara and:Tobias had a birthday party while I was there: I also was able to be at the Bible Chapel of Shawnee on Sunday which was nice - I hadn't been there to visit in quite a while. Bob Schroeder (Chris Schroeder's dad) is in their meeting and was the one who gave me a violin about 2 years ago. It had apparently been sitting in storage long enough

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I'm finally getting settled here in Greenville and now I'm going to catch everyone up on the past two weeks of my travel. I mainly saw this:However, I did get to stay in Branson, Kansas City, Topeka, and Hutchinson for a couple days each so that broke the monotony. I first made it to Branson and stayed with Jay and Deb. Henry made it clear that he was so bored with me that he'd rather sleep on a

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I left Cleveland today for my new job in Greenville, Texas. For those of you who don't already know, I will be teaching violin as part of a Suzuki strings program in the public schools in Greenville.I'm feeling reflective right now as I have no radio and I've been driving for 9 hours - hence the metiphorical picture on your left. I'm crossing back to the West and the Saint Louis Arch not only

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I recently went to Tucson for an audition and although I didn't win I really enjoyed the "vacation" from dreary Cleveland. I stayed with the Rockhold family and had a wonderful time getting to know them. They gave me a little taste of Tucson and even a little of Mexico. They actually are related to some people I know so we had lots of connections and knew a lot of the same people. Here are a few

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I was recently given a beautiful note by one of my 6 year old students (Katrina) with a note on one side and a picture on the other. I really enjoyed getting it and thought it would be something interesting to post. She uses inventive spelling in the note and if you're Carl or Tisara you might take a close look at the spelling of my name (this probably won't mean anything to anyone else). Also in

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I haven't posted in a while and people are getting antsy so I thought I'd take time out of my very busy and extremely hectic schedule to inform everyone on all my seriously important business. First off I'd like to mention that I have a visitor staying with me for a couple weeks. His name is Stanley but I like to call him Stan the Man sometimes because he's really easy to get along with and never

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Lots of talking and eating. Fact: 8 turkeys were involved with this portion of the evening One of the many blessings we have as an assembly.Fact: Those are real eyelashes The angel for the nativity scene. Fact: Little girls like pretty dresses A little sheep for the nativity scene. Fact: Sheep have boogers too Another little sheep. Fact: Apparently Nathan, as well as Mary, had a little lamb

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I go here at least once a week solely because they are the only place you can get free internet in Westlake (besides the library, which is not as nice a place to sit - in my opinion). It's where I'm sitting right now writing this post. :)I said "solely" but it's also nice to get out of the basement which I live in - not that I'm complaining. Sometimes it's just nice to sit somewhere where there

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I thought up this brilliant word-combo/pun for my title but then started wondering if anyone else thought of it. Well, again, I've found that original thoughts are hard to come by. Here are some pictures I took with my new camera. The driveway and frontyard where I live. An artistic snow picture?I'm doing a Christmas concert with the Akron Symphony right now and the Akron Symphony Chorus has

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I have resumed my blogging on a rather pretentious and selfish note, but I thought this would simplify things for the person wanting to lavish gifts on me at Christmas; something always worth condoning.Han's parsing guide to the Greek New TestamentPhilippians and Colossians by J Vernon McGeePhilippians: A Handbook for Greek Students Lectures on Philippians and Colossians by William KellyBrief

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I hope to fill you all in on what else I did this summer, complete with pictures, but since I don't have a camera I have to depend on others to send photos to me. We'll see how it goes. I will probably have some others of the Perlman Program as well and I'll post when I get them.For now though I thought I would post what I did right after going to the first music thing I did this summer. From

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Well, it's over. Two and a half weeks of chamber music culminated in three concerts of which my group played on the last (Saturday). It was somewhat of a let down for me to have worked and worked on this piece for 2 weeks and then to be done with it after 15 minutes, but overall I enjoyed the work we did. I learned a lot from this experience and am sure that I will refer back to it in my

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Last night we had our second and final masterclass - this time with Donald Weilerstein. I've put up a couple pictures from the first one we had last week with Itzhak Perlman. A masterclass is basically just a private coaching/lesson that's not private but rather open to the public. We play through the work and then he gives us his comments/suggestions and we try out a few of his ideas for about

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The other day we went to the Perlman's house for a barbeque. It was really good food and I had a lot of fun. Some of us played tennis. I haven't played tennis in a really long time and I forgot how much fun it is. Maybe it's just that I couldn't do it back then and now I can. There's also a swimming pool, ping pong table, and pool table. After it got dark we went in and watched a video about

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I enjoyed listening the other night to Mr. and Mrs. Perlman talking about Ivan Galamian and how he taught; his manerisms and such. It was interesting to hear such a great violinist talk about his early years when he was still a student. I was also reminded that I was Galamian's great-grandstudent. He is still teaching today through his students who taught their students who taught their students,

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I got to Shelter Island by way of my friend Jesse who was driving through Cleveland on his way to the Perlman Music Program (PMP). We actually went to Boston first because that's where Jesse was moving to and we dumped a U-Haul trailer full of stuff off at his place before going south. We left Cleveland at 8:30pm and ended up in Boston around 9:00am so I think we made it in good time. As we left

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Just wanted to give my address while here on Shelter Island.Perlman Music ProgramAttn: [My Name] Box 838, 73 Shore RoadShelter Island Heights, NY 11965

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Hello to everyone who still looks at my blog. I have not been posting for a long time (obviously) but plan to get back into it by posting what I've done this summer in reverse order. Actually it may be in random order depending on some photos I'm waiting for from a bunch of people. I'm hoping to make my blog a little more interesting by adding some photos.Anyway, nothing too interesting right now

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I am still alive and I haven't fallen off of the planet. Unfortunately (actually fortunately) I don't have a cool story to tell - like I was a hostage in Iraq for the past 82 days or I was on a top secret mission for the CIA - to explain why I've been absent from the blogging world. The only thing I can say is I've been doing actual real life things that don't exist in the blogging world. For

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I'm now back home and will be until January 6th. I'll be down in Branson, MO, for a little while too helping my brother build his house*. Hopefully I can get some pictures. That's all for this post. Short and sweet.*This is not actually his house but I thought it looked nice.

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I missed posting in November as I'm sure all of my loyal readers noticed. Sorry, I was busy preparing for my recital which I've now canceled. It wasn't going to be done in time so I canceled it. I'm not even going to reschedule, I just canceled it. Instead I'm going to work toward a couple auditions that have recently opened up: Buffalo and Charlotte.We're pluggin' along on our Greek; we're up to

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As you can see I am not a slave to my blog but I did think I should write at least one post in the month of October.The main reason I haven't posted anything is because nothing really interesting has happened. I've just been practicing, teaching a little violin, observing violin lessons for my Susuki Ped. class, playing some board games every-once-in-a-while, and (maybe the most interesting thing

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This last Thursday I took my first audition. It was with the Akron orchestra. I was one of the violists who won the audition and will be sitting in chair 8 for the 05-06 season. They said that if I want to stay past this season I will have to re-audition for the new conductor once they select him or her. I'm back in school here at the Cleveland Institute of Music and am enjoying my Suzuki

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...I was at dinner with my Beethoven group and Ellen dePasquale (the Associate Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and our chamber coach). As we were driving to Applebee's we learned that she had named her car Atticus. And since none of us was making the connection to the famous fictional character she soon asked if any of us had read To Kill a Mockingbird. Sadly, somehow, we had all made it

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Actually I'm in Westlake but who really cares. I'm glad to be done with the festival even though it was fun and productive. It's nice to be back to normalcy. I have some work to do getting my place back in order but it will be a good break from my excerpt work every so often. I've read a couple books recently. Tender Warriorby Stu Weber and Adolf Hitler: A Psychological Interpretation of His

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I'm almost done here at the Kent/Blossom festival. I had my last orchestral repertoire class with Robert Vernon (principal violist of the Cleveland Orchestra) today, I perform the Beethoven Op. 18 No. 2 string quartet on Saturday, and then I'm done.I've really enjoyed this festival and I would definitely consider coming back next year. I have learned a lot from Mr. Vernon and look forward to when

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As I said in my last post I was sitting with Arthur Klima of the Cleveland Orchestra during our side-by-side concert. While chatting with him I came to find that his time with the orchestra overlapped with Rosemarie Goldsmith's tenure as a violist there. Having just read a book about her and her husband this summer (which I blogged about here) it was enjoyable to meet someone who actually had

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I have to say that getting to play with the Cleveland Orchestra is definitely the highlight of my summer. Yesterday we had a long day of rehearsals followed by a marathon of a concert with two intermissions. The Kent/Blossom group (us) first played Schubert's 3rd symphony and Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin. Then the Cleveland Orchestra (them) played an overture, a bass concerto, and a violin

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This is my Hummel Piano Quintet group (and our coach) that performed this past Tuesday. From L to R: Jerry Wong (coach), Matt (bass), Jake (piano), Anton (cello), Morgan (violin), me (viola).

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Brainwashed : How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youthby Ben Shapiro. I've already read and reviewed his only other book. In that review I did not mention how he could be kind of - I think Dalton over at D-Town Values has said it best: There is only one bad thing about this book. Shapiro almost seems juvenile when he talks about these subjects. Let me try and be more specific. Every time

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I just finished my first of three performances and it went well. I'm looking forward to completing these and starting the Beethoven quartet. I'm also looking forward to this next weekend when we will be performing a side-by-side concert with the Cleveland Orchestra. We each sit with a member of the orchestra and perform two pieces, Capriccio Espangnol by Rimsky-Korsakov and The Three-Cornered Hat

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My last post was really boring because I didn't really have time to say much. I've been busy. Today is the first real break I've had for the past two weeks. So here is something a little more interesting.I wish that I had a camera because I would show you all kinds of things here at Kent State. I found a Hearing Aid Museum (I thought my Dad might be interested in that). I walk by it everyday

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I thought I should mention that my viola is doing fine and that I also got a new grip on my bow along with a re-hair. Most of you are probably already bored with the post at this point so I'll move on.We performed our first Orchestra concert last night: Beethoven's 8th Symphony, Bartok's Divertimento for strings, and Eclogue by Finzi (a piece for piano and strings). The Finzi piece was played by

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...Grace-Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel. My sister-in-law recommended this book to me. I appreciate all books about parenting because each of them reminds me that there are still people in the world who are interested in raising kids. A lot of people say that children are the future but not too many of these people are actually interested in "investing."I thought that the book had some very

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I had to post something about my sick viola. It started to make funny noises about a week ago and it's only gotten worse. I'm sure most of you won't be able to identify with this but when your instrument isn't sounding and responding like it normally does then it's like having...like...having...your clothes on backwards all the time. Everything just doesn't feel right and you're very

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I'm now into my second session here at Kent/Blossom music festival and I'm starting to get busy. Instead of just one 2-hour rehearsal a day(last session), I have two and tommorrow we start having orchestra rehearsals as well. I'm realizing the need to practice more on my own stuff on top of all of this. I'm not complaining though; I enjoy it very much.I'm now rehearsing two Mozart flute quartets

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This is my Martinu group. We just performed Martinu's sextet last night and it went pretty well. Standing L to R: Bekah (viola), Daisuke (violin), Jared (cello), Me (viola), Natalie (cello), Scott Haigh (our coach and first assistant principal bass of the Cleveland Orchestra). Knealing L to R: Ari (violin), Matt (bass). For those who are into details you know that sextet means six and you've

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The car my brother gave me just recently. Thanks Bro. Notice the car on the right side of the photo waiting patiently for me to finish.

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The really nice, air-conditioned dorms we're staying in at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival. My window is third from the right on the top - a totally useless piece of information.

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My youngest niece Alisa holding my youngest nephew Tobias. She's wondering where he got all that cool hair. Are those the Jr. size boxing mitts on his hands??

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My oldest niece Lydia holding my youngest nephew Tobias. She's got a sparkle in her eye like she wants to be a mom someday - oh wait, that's just a glare.

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My newest nephew, Tobias Caden Holden! I'm not liable for any neck injuries due to viewing this photo.

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The inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith. It's an interesting look into the personal lives of two young musicians and their fledgling romance preceding the outbreak of World War II. This Jewish couple find themselves in the Kulturbund deutscher Juden (Culture Association of German Jews) along with all the other Jewish artists in Germany,

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I've just finished my first week at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival and things are going great. It's very nice here and the people seem to be very nice. I have a good roommate, Stanil. He's from Plovdiv, Bulgaria and plays the oboe. He makes oboe reeds every night and when he tests them out it sounds like some kind of bird mating call. I keep wondering what might wander your way if you were to go

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...what's not to like. I'm at Kent State University as part of the Kent/Blossom Music Festival; a full scholarship summer institute. I'm studying with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Miami Quartet, and conductor Theodore Kuchar. I'll be here until Aug 15th. The mailing address is:Kent State UniversityBlossom Conference8 Midway DriveCentennial Court AKent, OH 44243

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...Ben Shapiro's book Porn Generation : How Social Liberalism is Corrupting our Future.First off, I have to say that I'm glad that someone from my generation is speaking up. In the book Shapiro points out all the ways that our generation is becoming jaded to the rampant decline of morality and offers suggestions on what to do about it. The book takes a good moral snapshot of America and offers

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Yesterday I could have said that these were all of my nephews, but not any more! Tobias Caden was born today around 7:30am after many hours of through-the-night labor. He was 9-something pounds and 21 inches long. I haven't had a chance to talk to my brother - it's his boy - but I hope to soon. I'm collecting them like baseball cards! Tobias is my number 7 nephew and number 11 nephew/niece (I'm

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I'm new to blogging. I hope it proves to be a good way to keep in touch and let people know what I'm doing. I don't know how often I'll be posting but I guess we'll find out. More to come soon!

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