Music Festival with Mark O'Connor Part II

Previously I mentioned the music festival; now we talk about the Master Classes. It was wonderful listening to these extremely talented young musicians tackle Mark O'Connor's music. The music was challenging, but beautiful, and the students showed both skill and bravery tackling the pieces. One musician, Justin, tackled a piece that required a different-than-normal tuning of his violin. As Mark commented on Justin's performance, he borrowed the violin took a few seconds to get used to the tuning, and immediately demonstrated some of his ideas. I think Justin was tickled both by the demonstration, and by Mark borrowing Justin's instrument:



Mark also worked with a quartet that had done an excellent job on one of his pieces:



Next, I want to tell you about one of the kids I met at the festival, who was a lot of fun: Keenyn. More soon.