{"id":1207,"date":"2013-05-10T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2015-03-06T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:52:53","slug":"isabella-perrons-blog-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/2013\/05\/10\/isabella-perrons-blog-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Perron\u2019s blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>A young violinist gives us her daily thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>About May 9, 2013:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow!!!\u00a0 What a day!\u00a0 Guess what? When I went to visit the Garage \u00e0 Musique, I got to meet my idol violinist Maxim Vengerov! And play for him!!! Maxim played for the kids too and I was so pleased to see kids my age interested in classical music and learning about music.\u00a0 In the Garage \u00e0 Musique, they help kids who are underprivileged, to develop their artistic abilities and have a better education. When I saw Maxim, I was so moved that I started to cry and could not stop myself! I was crying of joy and excitement and amazement of his presence after all these years, since I was five I had been wanting to see him in person one day. So there he was and a very very happy me and very happy kids that I inspired. It was a wonderful visit. After that I went to hear the last contestant of the first round. After their performances, I went backstage to congratulate them all, take pictures of them and even give them an interview, as if I was the journalist!! I had a very interesting conversation with them. I asked them the same question; &#8221;Do you like doing competition?&#8221; And they all said pretty much:\u00a0 &#8221;yes and no&#8221;. Most of them express that they do not really care for the results. They care more about how they play and I totally agree because when I go in competitions, I am in a competition with myself and I take it as a good experience to play, to have good comments, learn from it, learn from others who are playing and for the pleasure of making music! Now I look forward to hearing the second round!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Isabella<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/permanent\/en\/concours\/Isabella-Perron.asp\">About Isabella Perron<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Isabellainfo\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young violinist gives us her daily thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe-en"],"acf":[],"featured_media_src_url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/isabella.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}