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
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