Happy 200 birthday, Mr. Verdi!

On a day like this in 1813, Giuseppe Verdi was born in Le Roncole. To commemorate this date, I´m enclosing a video the Gijón Symphony Orchestra recorded on January 10th 2010 at Teatro Jovellanos in Gijón, together with the Orfeón Donostiarra and the soloists Svetla Krasteva, Lola Casariego, Mario Malagnini and Martin Tzonev, all of them under the baton of Óliver Díaz.

Percusize Me! has already written about this composer, so here are the links to the articles on which he was mentioned: 

Editing timpani parts

Editing timpani parts (II)

Editing timpani parts (III)

A king size bass drum

Looking forward to play his music again, I hope you enjoyed the video.

…et in Arcadia ego.

© David Valdés

1st anniversary prize draw results.

As you may remember from the post "Percusize Me! is now one year old", to celebrate the first anniversary of the blog we have organized a prize draw consisting of two DVD´s of the Gijón Symphony Orchestra performing G. Verdi´s "Requiem" together with the Orfeón Donostiarra, all under the baton of Óliver Díaz.

The winners are:

Daniel San Martín

Jesús Lorenzo Peña

We will soon get in touch with them to have their DVD´s sent.

Spread the word, recommend Percusize Me! to your friends, every percussionist has to know about this fantastic blog!

…et in Arcadia ego.

© David Valdés

Percusize Me! is now one year old.

On a day like this of 2010, Percusize Me! started its life on the blogosphere with a post entitled Welcome!

During this year I have tried to show my inquisitiveness with respect to Music, to share ideas with my colleague percussionists and to demosntrate the general public the passion I feel for my profession.

To conmmemorate this first year, there´s a prize draw for two DVD´s for those who send me their email addresses to info@david-valdes.com. The prize is a DVD containing the concert that, on January 29th, 2010, the Gijón Symphony Orchestra, together with the Orfeón Donostiarra, gave at Teatro Jovellanos. The work performed is Verdi´s "Requiem", with soloists Svetla Krasteva, Lola Casariego, Mario Malagnini and Martin Tzonev under the baton of Óliver Diaz. 

What are you waiting for? Send me those email addresses!

…et in Arcadia ego.

© David Valdés