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You're clearly someone who hasn't heard Bach's fugues for solo violin. You're right about the 12th, though, that's impossible for anyone with normal hands.

Weca pretty much summed up the good stuff. It starts off with your usual harmonic language and piano writing, but gradually transforms into something else. I like the harmonic twists you use, and the changes in the piano texture which make the writing less repetitive. The syncopations sometimes work (especially passages such as the one around 2:30); other times they felt bland and unecessary to me. I'm not one to laugh at music without lyrics, so I didn't. I'd like to see you explore this kind of 'weird' language further, instead of the same old progressions you've been using for centuries. There's a lot more variety in this - in every aspect - than in most of your pieces.

'Nigun' from Bloch's Baal Shem suite.

You are my favorite person ever.

Personally I don't care :P

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I feel that while I have some talent regarding both, I need plenty of work and guiding in the two fields from my teacher.

Every single professional violinist you listen to nowadays :P and above all the famous ones active today.

Thanks :) you had asked if my teacher is jewish. He's not: the klezmer style is something I do myself and enjoy very much, though my teacher definitely does not. My view of music and violin playing is different. He's a firm believer in the modern school. I admire the musicianship of old greats such as Kreisler and Elman, which he finds 'cheesy' and 'd

Bump? :P no one commented on this one.

Not really. I mean, a quartet with a violin, a viola, a cello and a double bass would still be a string quartet.

Delightful. There's some harmonic variety not present in a lot of your stuff, and the vocal writing is adequate. I'd watch for some of the syllable placements, such as the long held out "I've", which I'm not sure should be written that way. The modulation in the middle worked, but I was expecting more of a traditional aria structure. Also, some note spellings are wrong (using F when it should be E#, etc,) but those are superfluous details. Good job.

Seconded wholeheartedly. Kirby ftw.

Probably the only Mahler symphony which doesn't completely bore me.

Two things I noticed from the first time movement: your use of 5ths on the violin isn't very idiomatic: they're a very uncorfotable interval to play (especially in higher registers) and with pizzicato it won't sound much good. Also, the way you write in slurs is completely wrong for violin writing. You often slur over equal notes, which any violinist would interpret as a tie.