"Me and My Cello" Concert April 13, 2018
On April 13, 2018 I performed a benefit concert for my friend Shanda Harry (who was running for Superior Court Judge). I might want to avoid "Friday the 13th" concerts in the future. The computer I wanted to use had a bad line hum so it could not be used. After I transferred the audio files to a Micro SD card to a tablet to use instead, the card literally broke in two! The table with the computer and projector collapsed during the sound check and the projector fell hard onto the stage. The sound recording software I had on a laptop to record from the house mixing board would not operate. I ran out of time to set up an old camera to record the concert onto a DVD recorder, so I had to use 8mm tape (amazing how truly bad that is compared to digital recorders used these days). Then, just as the concert was starting I was projecting the first slide of my lecture part of the “lecture/concert” and the projector died. Apparently the bulb was cracked in the fall from the table.
The technology for the concert had dipped into an alternate universe. I was stressing out! After the projector stopped working (with all of my notes), I simply released all worry. From that point on I went into complete “flow” mode. I realized that I couldn’t control ANYTHING except my attitude about what was literally falling apart around me. That's when I relied on 17th century technology. Enola, my cello, did not fail me. The microphone Nick Biondo, the sound engineer, chose amplified Enola exquisitely. The performance of the Bach Suites was one of the best I’ve ever done. I was relaxed and focused. The other performers followed suit. We had fun. In fact, I was having so much fun that I ended up not having enough time to do the repeats for the Minuets or Gigue of the the Bach. The audience was in on the joke. We all laughed together. It was a wonderful concert! |
All the photos were taken by the amazing Nathan DeHart.
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Other Performers
Jasmine Byerley
(Ever since she was a child, Jasmine has lived in the imaginary worlds of books and fairy tales. Through her work as a musician, actor, and dancer, Jasmine has the ability to bring the imaginary worlds in her head into the living world, to make them real, and to explore the feelings and ideas of the real world in a way that she has found only performing arts truly can.
Jasmine sang the following songs by Clovice on the April 13 concert: Windows I Already Miss You If I Had A Way (Harlem Voices) Someday Duet (Duet with Clovice from Harlem Voices) |
Melissa & Steven Keith
Steven and Melissa Keith are a team of newlywed musicians living in Hopland. They both attended Mendocino College's music program where they had the opportunity to meet and work with Clovice. In their spare time they perform a wide range of cover songs at bars and wineries under the name Steve&Shug. Connect with them online via facebook at www.facebook.com/steveandshug
Melissa and Steven performed the following songs by Clovice on the April 13 concert: Past the Pain Now That You're Gone |
Jeff Ives
Since arriving in Northern California in 2000, Jeff has found a rich and welcoming musical home in the area’s community orchestras. He currently plays principal viola in the Ukiah Symphony, the Lake County Symphony and Symphony of the Redwoods in Fort Bragg. He is also an instructor in the Lake County Youth Orchestra and string education program. A native of Connecticut, he studied violin at the Hartt School of Music with members of the Hartford Symphony, and at the New England Conservatory with James Buswell. In 1991, he earned a BA in Music and English Lit from Tufts University, where he studied composition with T.J. Anderson and John MacDonald.
An avid composer since beginning his musical training, Jeff has written many pieces of chamber music for various combinations, as well as works for full orchestra. In recent years, several of these have seen premieres in the area; including his Lyric and Ostinato for Clarinet Quintet, the Concerto for Bassoon and Small Orchestra, and the Fantasy Orchestral Suite. Jeff played the Violin in a Violin and Cello duet with Clovice : Letter to Laura |
Carol Cole-Lewis
Clovice's wife, Carol Cole-Lewis, played piano for an improvisation the two of them did together on the April 13 concert. Time was short. The concert threatened to go over by about 20 minutes, so Carol and Clovice did a really short, but sweet improvisation. It was similar to the kinds of improvisations they do for Preludes and Offertories every Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist church they attend.
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