{"id":4554,"date":"2020-09-29T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/?p=4554"},"modified":"2021-01-19T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:11:33","slug":"blogposteblumenstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogposteblumenstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Elizabeth Blumenstock, Baroque violin mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\u2019re launching our Early Music for Modern Instruments month with a very special four-workshop series taught by Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock. The series begins Tuesday, October 6, at 7 p.m. PDT, and continues on Tuesday evenings through October 27. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth is a longtime concertmaster, soloist, and leader with the Bay Area\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/philharmonia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philarmonia Baroque Orchestra<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanbach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Bach Soloists<\/a>; concertmaster of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haendel-festspiele.de\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Handel Festiva<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haendel-festspiele.de\/en\/index.html\">l<\/a> in Goettingen, Germany; and artistic director of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bmf-cdm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar<\/a>. In a normal year, she\u2019d be traveling almost nonstop to concerts and teaching engagements around the world. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she\u2019s been sheltering in place in her rural New Mexico housing cooperative, where she\u2019s reading, practicing, and \u201ctrying to create garden beds out of the rocky wilderness.\u201d We spoke with her about her life in music and her plans for the AMN workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Blumenstock-1-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Blumenstock-1-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Blumenstock-1-600x681.jpg 600w, https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Blumenstock-1-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Elizabeth-Blumenstock-1.jpg 1109w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><figcaption>Elizabeth Blumenstock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get started with the violin?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d started playing the piano when I was 6. When I was 7, and living in Princeton, New Jersey, my mother fell in love with a local violin player, and suddenly I was taking violin lessons. It didn\u2019t work out between my mother and the violin teacher, but it worked out fine between me and the violin! I liked practicing, and I was reasonably good at playing in tune and in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I kept up with piano too, and also the organ, and for 21 years I played the organ in a small church in Richmond, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What sparked your interest in Baroque violin?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother had been a church organist, and so I grew up with Bach and other Baroque music. Then, when I was 21\u2014this would have been in 1972\u2014I was playing in a string quartet and the first violinist brought us the first recordings of all of the Bach cantatas on period instruments. I was instantly smitten by the colors, the timbre, the way the instruments blended together and how the music was shaped dynamically. I went away knowing this was what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But actually <em>doing<\/em> it took a little longer! Hardly anyone in the U.S. was doing it at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When did you start <em>doing<\/em> it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years after falling in love with historical performance, I played viola in the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Gigged around the Bay Area, got married, and had two children. Then in 1980 I heard about a newly formed group, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of the Golden West, as Philharmonia Baroque was called then. I called them up and said, \u201cI really want to play in your orchestra, but I don\u2019t have a Baroque violin.\u201d \u201cWe have one you can use,\u201d I was told. \u201cI don\u2019t have a Baroque bow, either.\u201d \u201cNot a problem\u2014we have one you use.\u201d And that was pretty much it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays there are 30 applicants for every open violin position and there\u2019s a formal procedure with auditions behind a screen. I was very lucky to get in on the ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You now play a very special instrument. Can you tell us about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I play a violin made in 1660 by Andrea Guarneri, the founder of the famous Guarneri violin-making family. It\u2019s on generous permanent loan from the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, a gift from an extremely generous anonymous donor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the gift was arranged, I was told I could start looking for a fine violin. Over the course of the next several months, and trips to Boston, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Albuquerque, I selected a total of seven instruments to try again and played them for a group of violin colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was one violin, from Boston\u2014every time I picked it up I went <em>ooohhh.<\/em> It was so clear and colorful. That instrument was our nearly unanimous choice.Imagine\u2014this violin was 25 years old when Bach was born! And that\u2019s the one I now play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not mine to keep, though. When I stop playing with Philharmonia I must give it back to the orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the second session of your AMN series, on October 13, you\u2019ll discuss \u201crhetorical music.\u201d That term may be new to many participants\u2014what does it mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baroque music has borrowed a lot from rhetoric\u2014the art of public speaking. Composers embedded the techniques of effective public speaking into their music, and it was also embedded in the approach to performance. Phrase structure is like sentence structure, with commas and periods and leaning on important \u201cwords.\u201d When you play in the rhetorical style, I suspect you turn on the part of the listener\u2019s brain that processes speech and meaning. You tell a story through music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are some tips for modern violinists who want to play early music?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expression in the Baroque style lies in the right hand\u2014the bow arm\u2014and not so much in the left. If you choke up on your modern bow, like you\u2019d choke up on a baseball bat, it shifts the balance and makes it behave a bit more like a Baroque bow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What would you do if you weren\u2019t a musician?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of me always wished I could dance. But in a way, playing the Baroque violin is so gestural that I feel as though I am in fact dancing with my arms and hands and fingers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vzDoFtNwO5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch a 2014 video<\/a> of Elizabeth Blumenstock playing her 1660 Guarneri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpostearlymusic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about our Early Music for Modern Instruments series.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re launching our Early Music for Modern Instruments month with a very special four-workshop series taught by Baroque violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock. The series begins Tuesday, October 6, at 7 p.m. PDT, and continues on Tuesday evenings through October 27. 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