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I've been practicing audition excerpts lately, not because I'm planning to audition for anything soon but because they're short (my left shoulder still has limited endurance) and it's just a good idea to be familiar with the common ones in case I want to take auditions in the future.
This one can stand alone better than most, because it's a principal viola solo. It's from Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, where a cello soloist represents Quixote and the principal viola has several solo passages representing Sancho Panza.
Still a work in progress. Need to work on articulation in particular.
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Sure. It's a modern American viola, 15-3/4" Tertis pattern, made in Phoenix, Arizona in 1979.
It's not easy to find information about Henry Krug today. What I've been able to piece together is that he was born in Germany, lived in Canada for much of his life and started making violins in Montreal, and eventually moved to Phoenix in the mid-1970s. He mostly made violins; he only made three violas in his life, all using the Tertis pattern.
Coincidentally, the owner of one of Krug's other two violas lives about half an hour away from me and contacted me earlier this year -- his grandfather, who purchased the viola directly from Krug, was a professional violinist and violist.
I don't know that much about the history of my own viola, except that the previous owner was a Hollywood studio musician who had it for about 15 years. I bought the viola from a shop in the Los Angeles area in 2006.
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