Happy 17th Birthday Anthony Bracewell!!!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday dear Anthony...
Happy Birthday to you!!
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday! Have a great day!!!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
A Successful Night Enjoyed By All.....
The recital was so successful! There was almost a full house and we doubled ticket sales at the door!!
Thanks to everyone who attended and / or donated to the cause! This will help Anthony and several other children and young adults who need financial assistance!
Thank you to pianist Mary for her accompaniment at the recital with Anthony. What a treat!
Anthony played flawlessly and received several standing ovations! It was a steal at $15 per adult and $10 per student or child.
I'm sure all who attended are thankful they did not miss it!
It truly was a night to remember!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tickets still available for Anthony's Recital October 19th .... (to listen to Anthony play... click here now)
That's right! There are tickets still available for Anthony's Recital Sunday October 19th, 2008! I am very excited to see Anthony in concert!! If you haven't heard him play yet... listen to this. The airing of NPR from Berkeley University in Oakland California. Berkeley is just across the bay from San Fransisco. Oakland is also where my step sister Tina lives and the view from Berkeley University is stunning! Tina brought my husband and I up on the "hill" where the U is for the sunset and it was stunning! It was a spiritual experience... much like how you will feel when hearing Anthony play....
Althought I have not had the pleasure of hearing Anthony play live yet.... my mom, sister and co-workers have! Anthony played for them in the back room of our store one day when him and his mom Christine were visiting. The girls said they got goose bumps and their eyes welled up. They said that the viloin seemed to be part of him. An extension of him. They said he was amazing... incredible and way beyond his years!
I have heard him play on video and on the airing of NPR and it is as though he has been doing this for hundreds of years. It will move you. Just as.... it moves Anthony.
Please listent to NPR as he is introduced and tells a little about himself and plays with renouned concert pianist Christopher O'Riley. After he plays you'll hear a short yet intimate & funny interview on stage after the performance. It is well worth the listen!
From the Top, September 24, 2008 - This week, From the Top visits Berkeley, California, where a 12-year-old pianist joyfully wraps her brain and fingers around a Bach fugue, a hockey-playing bassoonist plays Weber and a teen quartet offers up a new work by a local 17-year-old.
Sixteen-year-old Anthony Bracewell, grew up in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by music. His mother loved listening to Broadway show tunes and his father played guitar and harmonica. Bracewell began Suzuki violin lessons at age five, but when he was ten the young violinist suffered the loss of his father, an ordeal that served to deepen his relationship with music.
"Any time you go through something traumatic it makes you see things differently," says Bracewell. "In my case, I turned to my violin, and it brought my playing to a new level. I've always been able to turn to music when I've been sad or lonely."
Bracewell — a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, performs the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns, accompanied by host Christopher O'Riley.
Sixteen-year-old Anthony Bracewell, grew up in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by music. His mother loved listening to Broadway show tunes and his father played guitar and harmonica. Bracewell began Suzuki violin lessons at age five, but when he was ten the young violinist suffered the loss of his father, an ordeal that served to deepen his relationship with music.
"Any time you go through something traumatic it makes you see things differently," says Bracewell. "In my case, I turned to my violin, and it brought my playing to a new level. I've always been able to turn to music when I've been sad or lonely."
Bracewell — a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, performs the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns, accompanied by host Christopher O'Riley.
NPR "From the Top" website summery.
P.S.
The local concert that Anthony will be performing at for all of us....
Anthony will also be talking with the audience at intermission and autographs will be given... you'll want one because once you hear him, you will know that history is in the making with this young musician. What story you'll have to tell!
Peace, love, laugh...
Adria
Friday, October 10, 2008
Letter to Ellen Degeneres
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/
Hoping Ellen is OK with us posting this photo of her because we want to promote her effort to young people's musical careers.... and we always want to support the breast cancer cause! Hope you are getting the support you deserve!!!
Here is my letter to Ellen Degeneres about Anthony! See you at the recital October 19th, 2008!!!
See you there!!!!
Letter to Ellen:
You are wonderful! ... and funny and cool and a GREAT dancer!!!! :) So, the reason I am writing is that I know that you have helped support child prodogies. I am writing about a 16 year old boy who plays the violin and many other instruments, but the violin is his first love! He is incredible and although my words will never do him justice I know that you will be amazed by his talent! My family owns a retail business and we are sponsering him so that he can earn enough money to buy a violin of his own, and also to visit the best schools in the United States and audition for a scholarship. Anthony is one of three children and his mother has been working tirelessly to support the children and all of their talents. Anthony's father died of cancer when Anthony was 10 years old. His father was also a very talented musician and since his death, Anthony and his brother have made some huge musical advances. The only thing that is holding Anthony back is financial funding. He has a wonderful down to earth and has naturally funny personality, on top of his musical talent. For a a taste of his raw personality and his unique and amazing musical talent, please log on to this NPR airing of him at the University of Berkley University in California! You can also visit a blog we developed for him for more information. Thank you Ellen! Love you! Keep me laughing and seeing life in the way it should be always! Congratulations to you and Portia!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94903526
http://www.anthonybracewell.blogspot.com/
Best wishes,
Adria Meloche
Thursday, October 9, 2008
NPR Radio
OUR BULK EMAIL TO PROMOTE ANTHONY.
Hi!…… I just wanted to let you know about a very exciting event coming up regarding a very gifted 16 year old local violinist by the name of Anthony Bracewell.
Anthony has been playing the violin since he was five years old and his talent is truly astounding. Against great odds he has accomplished a great deal in his young life and his musical career continues to expand in many different directions. Anthony’s father passed away when he was 10 years old and his mother has worked tirelessly to help him reach the success that he has aspired to. Besides being the Concert Master of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Anthony plays with a quartet, Viaggio from Cleveland, has attended music summer camps in NY, attends Walkerville C.I. in Windsor and recently won a $10,000 scholarship. He also was recently aired on NPR’s show “From the Top” where the performance was recorded in California. (You can log onto
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94903526
to hear his performance and meet this very engaging, delightful young man.) Anthony’s resume of his Education, Orchestral Experience, Chamber Music Experience, Performance Experience, Competitions and Summer Camps and Schools is 22 pages long!
The May Court Club of Windsor asked our store, Rosser Reeves Jewellers to sponsor Anthony and we were delighted to accept. Anthony will be giving a Recital on Sunday, October 19th, at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Park and Victoria, in downtown Windsor. He will be accompanied by a very distinguished pianist, Mary Siciliano from Livonia, Michigan. Anthony has been working very hard with Mary to give us the best performance possible. It will be a couple of very exciting hours with a small break to get our breath back! The tickets are very inexpensive, $15 for adults, $10 for children, and we are hoping to fill the church.
I am asking everyone to forward this e-mail to everyone they know and if you are receiving this as a forward to please forward this to everyone you know - even if you are unable to attend. Please even forward to your out-of-town friends; they may have friends in Windsor they will forward it to!
Anthony has great plans for his musical career and we are looking for sponsorship from anyone that would like to help. No amount of money is too small or too large!! At the present time the violin Anthony is playing is on loan from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and we are trying to raise money to help him purchase a new violin as well as assisting him with the costs to audition at several colleges in the U.S. He hopes to audition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard in New York City, Curtis in Philadelphia and Colburn in Los Angeles, California. In order to qualify for admission and scholarships it is required that he auditions live at each of these schools, and this is quite costly.
Anthony is being guided by many professionals already in the U.S.A. and we are eager to make a Home Town contribution to his career, with your help! Please come, and/or purchase tickets for a friend.
Such talent and dedication to his art is quite rare and it may well be wonderful to be able to say in a few years from now “I heard him play when he was at the beginning of his career”. Looking forward to seeing you!
Carol Weepers, Rosser Reeves Jlrys. May Court Club Member
Jane Barlow, Past President, May Court Club
Christine and Anthony Bracewell
Please use attached document to order your tickets. Thank you again!
Anthony has been playing the violin since he was five years old and his talent is truly astounding. Against great odds he has accomplished a great deal in his young life and his musical career continues to expand in many different directions. Anthony’s father passed away when he was 10 years old and his mother has worked tirelessly to help him reach the success that he has aspired to. Besides being the Concert Master of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, Anthony plays with a quartet, Viaggio from Cleveland, has attended music summer camps in NY, attends Walkerville C.I. in Windsor and recently won a $10,000 scholarship. He also was recently aired on NPR’s show “From the Top” where the performance was recorded in California. (You can log onto
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94903526
to hear his performance and meet this very engaging, delightful young man.) Anthony’s resume of his Education, Orchestral Experience, Chamber Music Experience, Performance Experience, Competitions and Summer Camps and Schools is 22 pages long!
The May Court Club of Windsor asked our store, Rosser Reeves Jewellers to sponsor Anthony and we were delighted to accept. Anthony will be giving a Recital on Sunday, October 19th, at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Park and Victoria, in downtown Windsor. He will be accompanied by a very distinguished pianist, Mary Siciliano from Livonia, Michigan. Anthony has been working very hard with Mary to give us the best performance possible. It will be a couple of very exciting hours with a small break to get our breath back! The tickets are very inexpensive, $15 for adults, $10 for children, and we are hoping to fill the church.
I am asking everyone to forward this e-mail to everyone they know and if you are receiving this as a forward to please forward this to everyone you know - even if you are unable to attend. Please even forward to your out-of-town friends; they may have friends in Windsor they will forward it to!
Anthony has great plans for his musical career and we are looking for sponsorship from anyone that would like to help. No amount of money is too small or too large!! At the present time the violin Anthony is playing is on loan from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and we are trying to raise money to help him purchase a new violin as well as assisting him with the costs to audition at several colleges in the U.S. He hopes to audition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Juilliard in New York City, Curtis in Philadelphia and Colburn in Los Angeles, California. In order to qualify for admission and scholarships it is required that he auditions live at each of these schools, and this is quite costly.
Anthony is being guided by many professionals already in the U.S.A. and we are eager to make a Home Town contribution to his career, with your help! Please come, and/or purchase tickets for a friend.
Such talent and dedication to his art is quite rare and it may well be wonderful to be able to say in a few years from now “I heard him play when he was at the beginning of his career”. Looking forward to seeing you!
Carol Weepers, Rosser Reeves Jlrys. May Court Club Member
Jane Barlow, Past President, May Court Club
Christine and Anthony Bracewell
Please use attached document to order your tickets. Thank you again!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Viaggio String Quartet
2008 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition Held April 19th at Sundin Music Hall in Saint Paul, Minnesota
GOLD MEDALISTS
Viaggio String Quartet
http://www.spsqc.artaria.us/
GOLD MEDALISTS
Viaggio String Quartet
http://www.spsqc.artaria.us/
The 2008 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, which took place on April 19, featured six outstanding young quartets from a national pool of applicants and was judged in superb fashion by the Arianna String Quartet. The 2008 Gold Medal ensemble was the outstanding Viaggio String Quartet from the Chamber Music Connection outside Columbus, Ohio. Along with their Gold Medal, they received $1000 and a set of four handmade Anderson Music Stands.
From left to right:
Anthony Bracewell, violin; Stephanie Price, viola; Ken Kubota, cello; Eric Gratz, violin
2009 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition Sunday April 26th at Sundin Music Hallin Saint Paul, Minnesota
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