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しゅうまつ なにを しましたか?

わたしは金曜日にテレビばんぐみを見ました。ばんぐみおなまえ木曜です。タイワンのばんぐみです。

土曜日にスーパーへ買い物に行きます。三時ごろparticeしました。

日曜日にrecitalをがありました。6時ごろともだちばんごはんおいっしょにたべました。

わたしのクラス

わたし水曜日にtheoryのクラスと orchestra とear trainingのクラスがあります。

金曜日にオーケストラがあります。

土曜日にrecitalをがあります。

日曜日にpractice があります。

わたしのせいかつ

わたしはよく一時にごろふぅごはをたべります。

わたしわまいにちおんがくをきます。

わたしわよく八時におきます。

でも、しゆまつわ十時はんにおきます。

わたしはラーメンをですきです。🍜

わたしねこわなまえラーメンです。🐱

Cohort Musical Performance Progress report

Score for your (5-10min) collaborative performance

I think our performance is good. However, we do not have time to record it.

What factors/styles or genres influenced this piece?
This piece is been influence by the piano. We make the piano as our main part of the music and all of the other instruments follow the melody that the piano make.

Of the performances you’ve seen this semester, which performance (if any) most influenced this piece?

I think it is the jazz performance. The piece that we play are jazz style which is different form what I am familiar with.

Is this piece expected to convey any particular meaning or message?

This piece is a said piece which have the meaning of don’t let me go.

How does it reflect your individual voice and personality as an artist/citizen?

It make me said and try to make some pizzicato  within the piece.

Nina Beilina interview: “You need to enjoy music yourself in order to touch other’s heart.”

There are a group of top violinist and everyone agree. Nina Beilina is one of them. She has a strong voice, phrasing and create a unique voice for all different piece of music. She also plays her way and style that is all different from other.

Beilina do not really like to give a interview. However, as a student of her she offer me this chance to interview her. When I went to her house as what I usually did, she gave me a cup Chinese tea. All of her tea sets are from China or Taiwan. “I like how the Chinese design their tea set, it is very elegant and beautiful,” she says.  Look around her house there are many Chinese stuff that you cannot found in America. I ask if she travel to China and Taiwan often. “I really love Taiwan and one of my favorite student is Taiwanese too. I will call you by your Chinese name instead of your English name.” I am very shock at that point, my name is a bit hard to pronounce to make it accurate.

Beilina has many students through out of these years as a professor. Many of them are Asian and many of them are from Taiwan. Beilina says there is a specific reason for it. She says that because she really like the culture of Taiwan and also the most out standing student in her studio is also Taiwanese. “This student is so perfect that I want to make you like her,” she smiles as I smile at her. Due to her love from her students and also the love of culture of Taiwan she have a orchestra in Taiwan, which is now under the control of her favorite student. “I visited Taiwan a lot of times, and I am planning to go again maybe next year,” she says. “There are other reasons, too,” she added. Beilina said that she found out that she like the way the Asian more. “Student will be right on time or even ten minutes early before the class start to warm up. They will do their best when I ask them to change the fingering or any other things,” she says. She looked at me and said the reason way she takes me to her studio.

After we finish the tea, she asked me if I need other snacks. I thanked her for asking. We kept interviewing her and chat with her. The way of studying with her might be a bit tired but she promise if you learn and practice with her step by step you will success your goal. To understand every words that were written on the piece is important. “To be my student, you need understand all of that. It is the most important thing.” Beilina knows that her techniques are hard to learn and so she often gave her student some time to learn and improve their skills. The thing that Beilina really want her student to study with her is the music. Beilina is born in Russia, so the why she play is strong. Although, I feel like I’ve played very hard and strong to make the music aggressive; however, every time she wants me to make the music stronger.

“The way of practicing. You do not need to spend a long long time to practice. You need to got to know where and how you need to practice. You can practice for an hour or two but you need to done something to improve,” she says.

Beilina teach for a long time, to her teaching is fun. She feel like she wants to help these young violinist to success their goal. She did not care the hour that she spent on a student. Yet, sometime she spent almost two hours on teaching you per lesson. This is how much patient she has for student and music. She teaches the piece bar by bar and if you did not get it right she will spend time with you to make sure that you really do understand what she is asking for.

When I asked her when will she retire. She looked at me and smile. She says, “If my body and health is letting me teach. I will keeping teaching until that day.” Beilina really love violin and have lots of patient in it. She likes to share her score with her student for letting them to look at her note that she made. The also likes to share her learning experience with different professors with her students. She likes her students to think rather than to play without using brain.

Beilina also have a special style of playing. When you look at the way she control her bow, you will find out it is a unique way and many people cannot play well using that technique of controlling the bow. For her, this way of controlling the bow can make a stronger sound. She would like her student to learn this special technique from her. Unfortunately, it is too difficult to learn that only a few of them learn this way of controlling the bow. However, she knows the difficulty of learning so she do not feel bad for those students that do not learn it.

Beilina also likes the way that student called her “Miss Nina,” instead of “Professor Beilina.” She said this way of calling her make her comfortable. She likes to make her student feel like she is their family instead of “professor.”

Beilina likes to listen to music when she have free time. She also learn how to use computer. So, she use computer to contact to people and friends. Beilina often hangout with her friends and chat to them. She also like to search videos on YouTube to listen to music. She even upload her own video from her own concert to let people to enjoy in. She likes to share music with people from all over the world.

            This is a picture from a video that Nina Beilina upload on Youtube from her own concert.

Artist Statement

I am a performer across two disciplines including classical music and theater. I tried very hard to connect the classical music and pop music; I had also tried to connect the communities through the performing of music.

Taiwan, Taipei is where I grow up, my childhood was mostly wonderful, but there were still some reasons that I think it is not as wonderful as everybody else. My family and I were very close to each other; however I do not have friends in school. The main reason that I am not close with my friends is because I don’t watch TV and I have no time to hang out with them. This is the main reason why I am not close to my friends. I started piano lessons at the age of six, and while I am practicing it I didn’t fell that I like this instrument. Yet, after two years I stop to play piano and started to play violin. When I play it I fell like this is the instrument that I want to play and develop. I specifically remember the first lesson I played with my teacher. I was so nervous but excited that I accidentally drop my violin when I am playing it. In the second grade, I started to play in the school orchestra, and I had my first felling that I really like to play violin so much that I want to play it professionally.

While you need to practice the violin professionally and at the same time you need to keep up the homework and projects, it is the most challenging thing. Some of the projects that the teacher asked might need to include music that you perform by your own. Because of this project I started to connect the knowledge I know about classical music to pop music. The reason I want to connect the pop music with the classical music it because most of my classmate listens to pop music but I want them to get some knowledge about the classical music throughout this project. I started to asked my friends who are all from different types of music. They taught me lots of knowledge and I got to know what all different types of music. This project make to have the most exciting experience of music in my life, working with friends from different styles, background and performance is just the best experience ever.

Leaving my hometown Taiwan and come here to America for learning professional music is a huge challenge for me. When working with all kinds of people in the orchestra it is fun. All of us come from different place and all of us have almost the same goal that we want to success. Here in New York I met many people that is a professional artist from visual, dance, drama and jazz. We chat to each other and this made us know more idea of what each major do and how they work. Through out these weeks I gain more and more knowledge about all different types of art and I look forward to know more knowledge. Leaving your comfort zone from your own country might cause you to gain more knowledge about music and life.

Throughout my learning, I hope that after these years at The New School I can connect the music to the communities. And also to learn the types of music, music is a way to communicate with people. It is a language that all people understand, I hope that I can learn how to engage people into a communities by music.

“This is a test submission for the Art of Engagement”

“This is a test submission for the Art of Engagement”

http://www.kcis.ntpc.edu.tw/_KCNews/2016/20160310.html

This is one of the performance that I am in with the school orchestra.

What traditions and practices have given you the ability to improvise and create?

I listen to many kinds of music including pop, blues, classical and jazz. Listening to all of these musics gave me improvise to create feeling and passion in music. Although, none of my family member plays music or like to listen to these music, but I still keep my passion toward music. While playing violin we will need to practice on many practice pieces and through out these pieces I can learn many new and basic technique. After learning these technique it will help a lot while you are playing the heavy pieces that was written by some famous song writer.

Hello everyone excited to be there

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