#amazing violinist

[captain-kit-adventuress]

Ok, so I love this very, very much on its own merits. The dancing! The shouts of glee! The guy pretty chill while he’s absolutely just shredding on the violin! The bowing! All great stuff.

But my fandom-rotted brain couldn’t help but connect it to this fic I read called Cadenza. I can’t remember the author at the moment (don’t feel like checking my bookmarks, but maybe ficthepainaway?) but it was about an AU for Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. Jacob was a busker who played the violin and didn’t like staying in a place for too long. Evie was, well, Evie, and she was settled and in a relationship with Henry Green and sometimes Jacob couch surfed with them. Freddie Abberline was still a cop, of course, and Jacob is not super on board with that, but he doesn’t know until later. Abberline basically just sees Jacob at the tube station where Jacob performs on the evening commute.

And, long story long, eventually Jacob’s family gets him an amp in the hope that it will make it harder for him to move around so much but just prior to the end of the story, he announces he’s moving to NYC. So of course this is immediately what came to mind, and like, this is probably what part of Jacob’s show would look like. I think he’d love NYC and he’s absolutely go completely viral over there. This is of no real relevance to the video but as I said, brainrot from massive Assassin’s Creed hyperfixation, with Syndicate being one of my favourites, and here we are.

If you’ve read it, I hope you can enjoy my insane ramblings about this, and if you haven’t, go read it! It’s the most insanely good rom-com, and I’m someone who generally loathes rom-coms. And then perhaps you will understand my reaction to this video.

When New Yorkers hear a violin 🤣🤣🕺🏾🔥

[thelingering]

y'allllll wE GOT OUR SOURCEEE

[moonchild-in-blue]

the day i learn how to play this it'll be over for you bitches (affectionate)

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

personally this was the last straw for me

[misstiramisssu]

Every time I listen to Bazelgeuse's theme I always think about how hard the strings are going like damn your arm must be hurting but you're really making this shit slap continue

[leohtttbriar]

New Chamber Ballet performs the Chaconne

[irena-dubrovnaa]

okay while i do agree with the statement that you do not need super expensive equipment to make good art, im also tired of people pretending that access to better quality materials whether that's digital software like csp or expensive traditional paints/pastels/pencils etc cannot help you improve your skill

[anotherscrappile]

Would you look at this masterpiece

Via @alexrybakofficial on TikTok

[vicit-vim-virtus]

[ Ooc: I went to a concert and the orchestra played all sorts of film music, including LotR, and now I want to rewatch The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring asdfghjkl. ]

[razberried]

i would do unspeakable things to see Hilary Hahn live

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

...🎼🎻🎶 ❤️ 👏🏼

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[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

My husband started showing me her videos and now I am obsessed. She can literally play anything. And she is so beautiful

[cowboyg1rl]

I'm not really a big show tunes listener anymore but Bright Star is literally the best musical out there and everyone should listen to it.

[echosong971]

@certified-memelord

would you expect anything less from a musician? :)c

AND SPEAKING OF MUSIC, here are other piano pieces I both think are just fantastic and that I also think P should learn to play alongside La Campanella:

Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

Schubert - Erlkönig

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2, I. Moderato

Chopin - Etude Op.10 No.4 "Torrent"

Vivaldi - Winter (The Four Seasons)

Beethoven - Sonata No. 17 Tempest 3rd Movement

Beethoven - Sonata No. 23 Appassionata 3rd Movement

...do y'all think P knows how to read sheet music?

Like, he can play the piano—and he ends up being very skilled at it—but I also know people who can play piano very well that have NO idea how to read sheet music

And (unless I'm blind) I don't see sheet music on the piano while he plays...so....

[painted-bees]

[[sitting up in a cold sweat at midnight, grasping for my phone]]

Wait, wait, wait, guys. When Raf was starting to make the pivot from ""classical violin prodigy"" to ""teen pop sensation"" between the age of 13-16 years old or w/e, part of his insane PR circuit was doing collaborations and being featured in tracks by other way more behemothly popular [but elegant, maturely branded] musical artists. Specifically, he'd be featured as a violinist in these massive hit pop tracks.

So like, "Track Name by HUGE FAMOUS ARTIST [Feat. Raf Ephrem]" And Raf's contributions wouldn't be vocal but instrumental[violin]. It'd have been an amazing way to quickly get his name into international households early, cus what 90's ballad isn't made a bajillion times better with a nice violin solo featured in it??

Listen, what I am trying to assert here is that--in the Hi-Note universe, the violin in this Celine Dion song is a 15 year old Raf.

okay, good night.