Danielle Rosaria Cummins, violinist

Brahms and Mendelssohn Take the Stage

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:05:54 +0000

That was an awesome concert guys! Vernon Snyder (piano), Kevin Mills (cello) and myself collaborated at Cal Poly Pomona in a concert of German Romantic music. We performed the Mendelssohn Trio No. 1 and Brahms Sonata in G minor of Violin and Piano. Stay tuned for more chamber concerts in the future!

Photo by Neil Johnson

German Romantic Chamber Music: Brahms and Mendelssohn

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:26:12 +0000

This music is amazing! We’ll be performing the Brahms G minor Sonata for Violin and Piano and Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 1. It’s really an awesome journey to work with these pieces and you have to marvel at the genius of these composers. I hope you can make it to hear us perform tomorrow night!

Danielle Cummins, violin

Kevin Mills, cello

Vernon Snyder, piano

Wednesday, May 23, 8:00 pm

Cal Poly Pomona Music Department Recital Hall, Building 24

General driving directions: http://www.csupomona.edu/maps/directions.php

Campusmap: http://www.csupomona.edu/maps/

Tickets: $15 general/$10 student with ID, Parking $5

To Be a Violinist

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:54:06 +0000

“To be a violinist is to have your strengths and weaknesses held out on a dish for anyone to see and hear, for them to devour or love as they will, to have your humanity made real and present to yourself right under your ear, to live under fire and to love it”. ~Me

Baroque Technique

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:41:49 +0000

Now you can find information on Baroque and Early Classical technique of the “Violin: From Baroque to the Future” page on this blog. I’ll be adding information taken from the primary sources written by Leopold Mozart, Francesco Geminiani, and Giuseppe Tartini. It’s exciting to read about technique directly from the source, especially if you are working on and performing historical music. If you have any questions or are looking for information on a specific technique, let me know and I’ll do some more research and add it to the page. Check it out at http://daniellecumminsviolinist.com/violinfromthebaroquetothefuture/.

String Theory News!!!

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:13:30 +0000

String Theory’s been up to a lot these days. You can check out what in the following article:

http://stringtheoryquartet.net/2012/05/14/news-on-the-string-theory-front/

“Forest of Cedars” Completed

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:22:32 +0000

The String Theory original “Forest of Cedars” has been completed and is now part of our standard set list. The subject is rather an unusual one for this type of musical setting. It’s based on the four-thousand-year-old Mesopotamian epic poem about Gilgamesh, King of Uruk. This particular piece is about the middle part of the story, when Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu travel to the ancient cedar forest to fight it’s guardian, the monster Humbaba. It’s a timeless story about the quest for gaining immortality by means of far-reaching fame. The studio version of the song will be featured in our upcoming album. The video was taken at our last two gigs, the Blue Fin and the Anaheim Farmer’s Market. You can learn more about what String Theory’s up to at stringtheoryquartet.net.

Lyrics:

[Narrator] Harken and I’ll tell you a story a story of long ago a tale about fame and glory, life and death and friend and foe.

Knowing that his body was mortal and longing for his soul to be free the king of Uruk, high-walled city, set out on a quest to seek immortality.

[Gilgamesh] Come friend and we’ll go together! Come friend and I’ll show you the way, the way to make our names forever shine with a glory that’s bright as the day!

In the distant land across the desert, many days journey from here, there stands an ancient cedar forest guarded by terror and evil and fear.

We will go into the forest of cedars and fight him who the gods of old have given careful watch of their forest Humbaba its guardian from times untold!

Friend, we slew him, the monster Humbaba, at whose cry all the mountains quaked! We shall fell the lofty cedar and take it to Uruk in triumph and honor and praise!

Vegetable Orchestra

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:06:33 +0000

Groups like this are so cool. They’re not afraid of being unique. One of my young violin students told me about them. This Vienna-based orchestra plays instruments made from fresh vegetables. Music making always requires the use of materials from nature and this is just another example of that. I love this video that starts with the intense preparation that takes place before each concert.

http://www.vegetableorchestra.org/about.php

Breaking News!

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:20:32 +0000

Concert today!

Kresge Chapel, Claremont School of Theology, 4:15 pm

We will perform Bach – Concerto for Two Harpsichords & Pergolesi - Stabat mater

1325 North College Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

Map for Kresge Chapel – School of Theology:

http://cst.edu/about/map-directions/

New String Theory Adventures

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:07:42 +0000

You may have been seeing a lot about String Theory and have been wondering, “What’s all that about?”. String Theory is our band where we play any type of music we want and also write our own originals. We’re a quartet of four professional out-of-the-box musicians. If you’re in the Inland Empire/Claremont area, now’s your chance to hear us live! We’ll be performing at the Blue Fin in Claremont on Sunday, April 22 from 2 – 5 pm. You can get directions from our website at http://stringtheoryquartet.net/upcoming-events/.

Yesterday we played an hour long set at the Anaheim Farmers Market where we premiered several band originals such as “Candy” by Sarah Wallin Huff” and “Forest of Cedars” with the completed vocal part. We’ve go an album in the works, so stay tuned and you’ll be able to get recordings of these originals in the near future. In the meantime, we’ll have videos up in a couple of days from the gig yesterday. Here are some pics from the Farmers Market. You can see more on the band site at http://stringtheoryquartet.net.

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View from the Orchestra Pit

Danielle Rosaria Cummins — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:53:38 +0000

Just had to share this! Here’s a video of what the orchestra sees: