Sunday, July 6, 2008

Atsuko


Overwhelming, astonishing, mind-boggling. Just been to see Atsuko Temma again, again in the small auditorium of a music school - just the 70 or so seats. Her passion and technique are extraordinary - she manages to squeeze the whole of human experience, and our reactions to it, out of a small wooden box, just four strings and some horse hair, although it is a fairly unusual wooden box, being a Stradivarius.


Came out feeling somewhat drunk and dizzy - all a bit much.