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OMGosh. Ilona, this is so very weird! I was going to do this later this week! That is soooo funny! 🤣😂🤣 I will think of another theme. I was going to request the movie, also. It is the cello in us! This should get some really pretty pieces! I have to record mine in a couple days. If someone uses the one I have been working in for over a month, I am submitting it anyway. Yep.
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@Ilona -
What a GREAT Party theme!
This is going to be so much fun.
You do a wonderful Harry Potter, Ilona!
Did you watch all the movies? I loved them all.
Oooh... what about "Jaws" on the Cello?
There's sooo many good ones to choose from, I don't know where to begin!
Think I could spend a lifetime at this Party!
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@Ilona -- Great on the Harry Potter-- I think I've seen them all, but I've watched them out of order--
This is a good idea--lots of great choices out there--I'm going to have to think about this one a little.
Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.
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great idea @Ilona and nice playing there! now to decide what to do!
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I'd like to do some multitrack videos for this party later, when I have more time and energy. (My musical attention is focused on a big virtual orchestra project right now.)
For the moment, here's the most famous viola section soli passage in all of film music: the beginning of the Jurassic Park theme. I played up to the moment the woodwinds take over the melody. I believe this is literally the only Hollywood feature film to have its main theme first introduced by the violas.
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I absolutely love the Harry Potter! I have read all the books and watched all the movies so many times that I can’t count anymore. You can ask anything about Harry Potter and I would probably answer immediately. 😜
@AndrewH Thank you so much for joining my party! 🥳 That was really great! I love Jurassic Park too, have seen all the movies many times! Thank you also for that backstory about the viola part in this main theme, I didn’t know that.
@Mouse This was the first idea that popped into my mind, when I was thinking party themes. Funny that you had the same. I have two more ideas too, so let’s hope they are not same as yours. I’m still not going to start a new party for a while. 😊
Ps. Feel free to make as many videos as you want! The world is full of great movie themes!
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alright @AndrewH ! 
that was great! yall violas and cellos are making me wanna break the budget here! lol. seems like a good day to play fiddle. cold frosty morning is appropriate but i cant find a film that uses it.. sadface. congrats on the coming party badge @Ilona
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Lovely job, @AndrewH You look so comfortable playing your viola and get such good sound from it. I am working on getting that song. I tend to want to bow it like a violin, and that is a no no. What bow do you use? Just curious.
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@Ilona The Harry Potter sounds very cool on a cello. Thanks!
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@AndrewH -
How wonderful you came to the Party!
(know you've been very busy)
LOVED your Jurassic Park - fabulous on your viola!
You really got the Party going
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helped Ilona get her Party badge!
Ooh, ooh, ooh! I know what I'm going to play!
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Lovely job, @AndrewH You look so comfortable playing your viola and get such good sound from it. I am working on getting that song. I tend to want to bow it like a violin, and that is a no no. What bow do you use? Just curious.
I use a C.F. Iesta hybrid bow, which is now sold in the US under license as the JonPaul Fusion Silver. (It was still sold under the Iesta name in the US when I bought it 10 years ago.)
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Thanks, Andrew. Enjoyed your video.
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@Mouse -
The Hills are alive...
with your cello music!
Very beautiful, Mouse - great Party!
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Thank you.
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beautiful playing at @mouse really like your vibrato!
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Thank you, Gregw. I have been working in that song over a month. i am trying to straighten my bowing and only use vibrato where it is needed, not just all long notes. I vibratoed (if that is a word) all the long notes when I started. It was too much. Plus, my bowing was angled a lot worse when I started.
If “vibratoed” is not a word, I think it should be. 😁
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Well now, this is fun! So far I am enjoying them all! A great theme for a party. 😀
Fine playing on some fine themes. 🙂
For my submission, I decided that while I be not great at the fiddle, I do have a certain talent for weird, and thus shall entertain with a minimal snippet from the movie that made people afraid to get in the water:
Jaws
