For the first Viola By Choice blog, here is something I just couldn't resist sharing. I happened to just stumble upon this in an article from the Utah statesman (don't ask...):"There is a heritage of military bands as a functional organization," Morrison said. "If you want to rally the troops, it's harder to do it with a viola. Military bands were started for functional reasons. You can play brass instruments outdoors in all kinds of weather where string instruments would be damaged."
I asked my luthier to build me the perfect viola: an instrument, nay a vessel of Creation, which would convey infinite moods and emotions, which would reflect, nurture, and reestablish all that is good and worth living for, indeed would reassert life itself, and whose sonority would be low, rich, deep, almost spellbinding, and remarkably close to the human voice in its inflections, in the breadth and scope of its dynamic and expressive range. Yet how could he have betrayed me thus? How did he not [...]
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I asked my luthier to build me the perfect viola: an instrument, nay a vessel of Creation, which would convey infinite moods and emotions, which would reflect, nurture, and reestablish all that is good and worth living for, indeed would reassert life itself, and whose sonority would be low, rich, deep, almost spellbinding, and remarkably close to the human voice in its inflections, in the breadth and scope of its dynamic and expressive range. Yet how could he have betrayed me thus? How did he not [...]
