YouTube Symphony violin audition - Pag 20 Donovan Seidle

[Lampers123]

great audition, i love the contrast of a slow and sweet section against a more aggresive and thicker textured section. it really shows a flexability in music, and much skill. beautiful.

[YTSymphonyHopeful]

Damn, yours blows mine away. :-)

[Taniuuh]

ahhh you're amazing!

great job!

[tiffanyrox909]

Donovan,

I saw you play at the CPO! you were fantastic. My school had the chance to go on a field trip to the CPO, You preformed a Improvisation with your violin!

[garfablobble]

not THAT good. its ok.

[thepakman]

are you serious?? its really good. maybe not perfect. but it takes a lot of practice to get that good.

[metalizaa]

wow... no doubt why you made it to YTSO. well done. :)

[lilith0001]

You are my favourite!! love it!

[zulkiflimnoer]

definitely one of my favorite classical musicians!! : )

[dslcharge]

o_0 You preformed at my school today...

[afrothunder99]

WOW!!! Congradulations Donovan.... you represent Canada at Carnegie Hall. Good Job!

[SuMerPaRaDiSe]

cool!!

is this wat you worked on after playing with our CYO orchestra in Banff??

[Navonod3542]

Haha, kind of... I realized I only had a day to send in this thing.... so I practiced in the morning and recorded in the afternoon.... YIKES.

NOT perfect. i know. ;)

[TalithaK]

Beautiful!!  I love the violin!

[TaliaBeltR]

wow

[ellerylatino]

I seen you on the paper today!!!!!!!!! go Calgary!!!!!!!!!!!

it said over 18000 views but your at 23000 pretty much lol

[lizka08]

Awesome I love it, have seen you perform live you definitely show skill, passion and talent. Way to go! Congrats on making it. Make us proud. :)

[Remusloo]

Lovely. Cow town is very proud.

[Pierrelev42]

i also heard about the documentary today! anybody has more details?

[carlosg72tb]

great job!

also like your blog!!!

did you hear about the documentary?!?! harmonyfilm com check it out!!!

[purplemonkeys09]

Awesome!!! :)

oh this is Maureen btw i met you before

[pvconcei]

awesome!

[LemonTwang10]

I like the variety/style. Excellent! Playing with ease.

[LizardWings]

really amazing

[Donnydarko4]

man that looks sooooo difficult...Amazing...My respect

[96605devil]

awesome !

[SCSQ4]

Navonod, congratulations on making it into the YouTube Symphony Orchestra! I look forward to watching the video of you playing together with the orchestra next month!

[Navonod3542]

Thank you! :) :) :)

[Augustusdavid]

Dude congrats on getting in! See you in NYC!

[Navonod3542]

w00t! Looking forward to playing with you!!

[VermillionThunder]

All I can say is you are amazing! If you do not make it, someone needs to be sued. Just wow you are amazing.

[TheBikeMechanic]

I enjoyed the piece that you did, but I feel as though you being very mechanical; that is how the sound comes across. I listened to Shlomo Mintz's piece afterward and then to yours again. I would recommend pulling the note up as he does (slower initiation with the bow in the first part of the movement ). Keep up the practice!!

[Toiletcat27]

I think I fell in love with you... haha, kidding, but seriously man, I was literally enchanted when I was listening to that melody. You`ll probably go a long way with your talents!

[STpacific]

fantastic

[rockgod91]

absolutely amazing!

[smitzuki]

OMYY~ This is awesome~

Excellent skills and tones!!

Wish you good luck

[ellerylatino]

15,000 views almost!!! march 2nd youll find out what flight you gotta buy to go to Carnegie !!!!

[hellish1102]

excellent technique and tone great job !

[DemonicLemon]

first, Nice video! I really enjoyed it.. you're very skilled.. xD

second, I saw that shirt once! I was gonna buy it.. but htere was one left and it was too small haha.. but it is a nice shirt

[mattmca321]

I keep thinking i hear some Norwegian influence in the first section of this piece. does anyone else get this? like a hardanger fiddle.

[Navonod3542]

Thanks! I like this shirt too!

Man, I admire anyone who regularly puts stuff up here on YouTube. It's seriously revealing, isn't it? Balls of steel, folks. Balls of steel.

[mehran1064]

Great job, you'll be a great violonist...( I think you should work on your fingering, don't underestimate the power of fingering. )

[Jelleybean18]

absolutely amazing! :)

[XxAznp00pxX]

that...was....wow

[Kahht]

im not really into this kinda music, nor do i have any education regarding any of this but from a dumb person's point of view it was really good :)

[NeoMettalicus]

Very good i must say to you sir. I do have to be honest so I shall say that beggining was very smooth and soft but turning it up on the second half got a little scratchy.

[laulaudounette25]

Very amazing :O!!!

[bawabhan]

That was great. A lot of heart into it. Would like to see you play a different genre too. Great job

[IggyArtist]

Hey! I own the same shirt as you. Bluenotes? :p Very beautiful!

[virtuosolomon]

yes, what a beautiful shirt, considering this video is based on a sick tune, yet, we stare at the shirt...

lmao when u eat a chicken leg...i assume you eat the bone instead of the flesh.

[IggyArtist]

Ah! You've found my secret weakness! I do eat chicken bones (nasty flesh).

No, I love the music but I somehow got caught up in the fact that we have the same shirt (which I'm wearing now ;P).

Sorry for my tremendous mistake of overlooking true greatness :P But honestly, Navonod deserves to be in the YouTube Symphony (in my opinion) ,for I am not a classical musician, but I admire anyone who is...

Iggy-

[Julianne1989]

Amazing! I loved the sound of it!

[beefsoup555]

good job

[jolpington14]

that was very good i love classical music very beautiful!!!

[TerribleMasterUrd]

very nice^^

I play the violin too and that makes me want to practice =]

[moneymaker132]

Great sound. I loved it.!

[sam6350]

You sir sold your soul to the devil to play like that. Would you please give me his phone number so I can do the same :P.

Well done man. Keep it up

[koolkillarz]

skills

[youbedo2]

Those double-stops are tough, especially to get on a recording. You did well. I've played for 16 years, and have recorded, and I'm impressed. Keep it up - use that talent!

[cisforcookie531]

Yeh! What would Almut say...

[pinkerpainter123]

VERY BEAUTIFUL! i enjoyed it! good job!

[gotzmunchees]

Bravisimo!

[Swidhelm]

Very well played, you've got lots of talent!

[mandron]

awesome playing

but haha at some parts of the piece it looks like his left arm is not attached to his body

[01alexx]

Wow, you're fantastic! I love they way you play! :D

[lilvin69]

your almostas much as big of a fag as this clown in the video

[Swidhelm]

Music too sensative for you? Have to be macho? Not very secure are you?

[246trinitrotoluene]

ya, pro wrestling is much cooler, and for real men.....

end sarcasm

[foxiekatt]

wow. i hope sumday i can play as well as u =)

[skooptwo]

woah.

Your really really good =]

[SilverDragon24]

1:00 to 1:30 is my favorite part! :) thanks for posting rawr

[TheColdestCalm]

lovely.

[samus007]

its not the 5th caprice, but it was pretty damn good

[PilpherStory]

AMAZING!

[246trinitrotoluene]

great bow control

[Play0nWord5]

You are quite an amazing violinist I really enjoyed watching this video. Fantastic Job :)

[halosavage]

***** hope you make it!!!!!!!!!

[ubergossen]

Nice, I'm studying violin in university right now, but I suck pretty bad so I don't think I'll audition for the youtube symphony unless they're really low on fourth violins or something.

[Navonod3542]

I'm loving these comments! Keep them coming!

[wlcantinhoroca]

Amazing... Congratulations!!!! I loved the beginning!!!

[helzboy11]

it pro good job i like it

[Vreugdian]

Saweet man! Im gonna vote for you.

[bubbabray]

Holly c@p u r good!!! (i can sort of play the violin)

[polly30]

Nice!

[victorygrappler]

this the real shit right here ma nigg@.

the sound is off becuz of acoustics, but you play way better then them trick@ss bustahz on here.

peace

[mandoaaron]

Five stars

[SCSQ4]

I just wanted to let you know that I gave you my thumbs up vote this morning on the YouTube Symphony Orchestra page.

Keep up the great work!

[SCSQ4]

Bravo! I have watched many of the audition videos of this piece and I think you did one of the best and most impressive performances of this challenging piece!

I hope you will make it into YouTube Symphony.

You will definitely get my vote.

[buudzis]

second part should be much faster..

but still not bad :)

[Navonod3542]

Yeah, interpretation is a funny thing... but the decision to keep it pretty much the same tempo WAS a conscious choice - I mean, the second section is marked Minore, but doesn't have any sort of tempo indication. I figured since the pace was already changing from eighths to sixteenths, a tempo change wasn't needed (nor did he seem to call for one). So what makes YOU think it should be faster? Thanks for the comment - I appreciate the feedback!

[Navonod3542]

.... I LOVE them.

... HAR HAR HAR!

[Navonod3542]

Can't you hear the raw, uncensored LOVE that I'm giving to those octaves?

[jasechong]

Hahaha :) I feel you... I mean, what was Paganini thinking?

[Navonod3542]

Seriously. :)

[gilbertf]

Probably something along the lines of "hey, I can do THIS". What a great virtuoso, had to write his own to challenge his skills.

As for you, you did good, but the second part is a little too scatchy for my taste.

[dxhaloxc]

you look really stiff.

but you play well.

[violin1507]

i totally agree. you do play incredibly well, but i feel that it needs something more. like expression. the notes were all there but it was just bland. but other that i really enjoyed this piece.

[Augustusdavid]

Incredibly strong performance. Greatly enjoyed this!

[balthica]

Beautiful playing. Best of luck!