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Duo Koral
They way you work with developing your music differs all the time: Sometimes you want to be on your own and do a soloproject, and sometimes you like to be a part of something bigger together with others and sometimes you really want to play just with one other person.
The best is to have all theese kind of collaborations working, so that you can alternate between, and when you need to be on your own, with others, or with just one other person you can easaly do that.
For sometime now I’ve been longing for the ”duo-thing”. I have my solo-performance. ReBoot, I have my big ensemble ”Out of Time and Country” and I’m very happy for thoose two settings, but I have been longing for the ”duo-thing” because it gives so much joy to work with just on other person in a duo.
But its been very hard to find the time to make that phonecall, too speak with the person in question. Why is it so hard to get the time for this very important thing that could leed to a perfect duo I don’t know?
Today I decided that there is no perfect time for this, so instead of waiting for the perfect time I should grab my phone - call my very good friend Mats Olofsson who played the cello so beautiful and ask him if he wants to play chorales togehter with me in a duo. We have both tried to reach each other for over a year, leaving messeges on each others answering maschines, but never got in contact.
(mobil signal ring, ring, ring)
Mats: Yes it Mats
Me: Hi Mats its Susanne
Mats: Hi - how are you doing?
Me: I’m fine, and how are you?
Mats: I’m fine.... Whats on your mind?
Me: I wonder if you and me could form a duo and play some old traditional chorales togehter, like we used to. I really like to play with you. What do you say!
Mats: I would really love that, perfect! I’m happy you asked!
Me. Great, and maybe do some concerts next summer?
Mats: Yes, absolutly, and maybe record a CD as well, while we are at it...?
Me: Great - I would love that! How do we start?
Mats: Maybe you and Sven can come to dinner on xxxxx and we can talk more, and play.
Me: great, perfect, lets decide that, bye-bye
Mats: Bye bye -see you soon then.
And 3 minutes later we have formed a duo, decided to play together, when to play, what to play, that we should record a CD and when we should eat dinner together.
It was so easy, so I wonder - maybe it was important to wait until this very minute that felt as it was the right moment to make this important call?
And maybe it couldn’t have been possible to do it until this very moment? Well, I will never know.
But happy as a lark I will start to tell the world that we have a new duo - Duo Koral - that will start play some wonderful music together.
And that’s the important thing!
The best is to have all theese kind of collaborations working, so that you can alternate between, and when you need to be on your own, with others, or with just one other person you can easaly do that.
For sometime now I’ve been longing for the ”duo-thing”. I have my solo-performance. ReBoot, I have my big ensemble ”Out of Time and Country” and I’m very happy for thoose two settings, but I have been longing for the ”duo-thing” because it gives so much joy to work with just on other person in a duo.
But its been very hard to find the time to make that phonecall, too speak with the person in question. Why is it so hard to get the time for this very important thing that could leed to a perfect duo I don’t know?
Today I decided that there is no perfect time for this, so instead of waiting for the perfect time I should grab my phone - call my very good friend Mats Olofsson who played the cello so beautiful and ask him if he wants to play chorales togehter with me in a duo. We have both tried to reach each other for over a year, leaving messeges on each others answering maschines, but never got in contact.
(mobil signal ring, ring, ring)
Mats: Yes it Mats
Me: Hi Mats its Susanne
Mats: Hi - how are you doing?
Me: I’m fine, and how are you?
Mats: I’m fine.... Whats on your mind?
Me: I wonder if you and me could form a duo and play some old traditional chorales togehter, like we used to. I really like to play with you. What do you say!
Mats: I would really love that, perfect! I’m happy you asked!
Me. Great, and maybe do some concerts next summer?
Mats: Yes, absolutly, and maybe record a CD as well, while we are at it...?
Me: Great - I would love that! How do we start?
Mats: Maybe you and Sven can come to dinner on xxxxx and we can talk more, and play.
Me: great, perfect, lets decide that, bye-bye
Mats: Bye bye -see you soon then.
And 3 minutes later we have formed a duo, decided to play together, when to play, what to play, that we should record a CD and when we should eat dinner together.
It was so easy, so I wonder - maybe it was important to wait until this very minute that felt as it was the right moment to make this important call?
And maybe it couldn’t have been possible to do it until this very moment? Well, I will never know.
But happy as a lark I will start to tell the world that we have a new duo - Duo Koral - that will start play some wonderful music together.
And that’s the important thing!
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