And We Put Them Together!

What a thrill. To be in a room with 19 vibraphones AND David Friedman!

We are all together. The Xylo and Vibe players for a George Hamilton Greene presentation.

Man Friedman rocks! We had a half an hour before a presentation by the xylo guys on George Hamilton Green. David just talked a bit. So check it out!

These guys have been working hard! The school is open until midnight and I leave between 10 and 12 and I always see people in there practicing! We are ready for David Friedman to come in tomorrow!

Today I had violinist Diane Monroe come down. During the afternoon class we played different tempo and different style tunes and talked about playing with out a bass. We didn't perform the whole tunes, just parts of them. Saving the actual performance for the evening class.

Joe Veltri was totally brave when I asked who wanted to play duo with violinist Diane Monroe at the 2010 Univ. of Delaware workshop. He volunteered. I think he does a good job for a difficult task.

I pick it up in the middle of the tune. 'He's playing There Will Never Be another you'.

The idea was to give them a chance of playing in a duo that was baseless and see what that's like. This is after I played a couple tunes with Diane. We practice hard and I've worked hard at this combination of instruments and trying to make it sound as well as I can!

Well according to Joe the mallets actually make you play better. hmmmmm.