Talk:Lucia Micarelli

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 * "During her live performances with the band, her performances have been characterized by an incredible stage presence, and an intense level of energy and talent. Her manner of playing has led some to compare her to Ian Anderson himself, comparing the way in which she has taken the violin, an instrument usually associated with classical music, and challenged many traditional ideas about what kind of music it can play, with the way Ian Anderson took the flute and introduced it to the rock scene. One of the finest examples of her playing style is the Led Zeppelin cover of "Kashmir" performed by her and Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, featured below."

MarkBuckles (talk) 22:18, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Other career milestones
Update: Since I didn't get any comments on this, I am putting some of this stuff on the main page.

'm putting this here, rather than on the main page, because I'm so sick of self-righteous editors deleting my stuff. Frankly, I think editors are destroying wikipedia by making it too hard for ordinary people to post. I'll let someone else deal with the co-dependent drama. But there is a whole lot more to her career than what is on the main page

For instance, I see that the over-zealous editor has deleted the reference to the solo performances with Ian Anderson, because the point was surrounded by other language the editor didn't like -- effectively throwing the baby out with the bath water. Here are two youtube videos from January of 2006 of their appearance in Vienna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVuFKozfJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttGl-Mt302Y

While the main page refers to her tours with Josh Groban it neglects to mention that she appears as a soloist and concert mistress in two of Josh Groban's DVDs: "Live at the Greek" and "Awake." This music was characterized as classical/pop crossover. Her solos, "Kashmir" and "Bohemian Rhapsody," also appear on YouTube.

Again, while the main page refers to her touring with Chris Botti, it doesn't mention that she also appears as a soloist on Chris Botti's DVD and CD from his "In Boston" concert playing "Emmanuel." This is on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NN4fpdm40 She appears prominently on a DVD/CD called "Love Project Journey,: organized by a percussionist called Yael. This DVD/CD features improvisational/experimental music. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1523352/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Here is a youtube video of her playing with Josh Groban and David Foster on "Mi Mancherai" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJwNS-FPXOI

She did a duet of "Kashmir" with William Joseph on his CD "Beyond." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hsAtAOGcs https://www.pandora.com/artist/william-joseph/beyond/kashmir-feat-lucia-micarelli-violin/TRx2jgz3ndrnmbK

She had a single "One More Cup of Coffee" on a fundraising CD Set for Amnesty International called "Chimes of Freedom" along with Steve Earle. On this single she both plays the violin and sings, revealing a bluesy singing style. https://music.amnestyusa.org/products/steve-earle-and-lucia-micarelli-one-more-cup-of-coffee-valley-below

She can be heard in several pieces on the CD's coming out of the Treme show. These include "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance," "New Orleans Blues," "Heavy Henry," "Spring Can Really Hang You Up," and "Carved in Stone." These songs are in the New Orleans Jazz genre.

She toured with Chris Botti again, more recently, including in the 2015-2016 season. During these performances she was featured soloist on several pieces. I counted 5 or 6. http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=13655

She had a PBS special filmed June 3, 2017 https://events.kcrw.com/events/an-evening-with-lucia-micarelli-filmed-live-for-pbs/

The music of the Trans-siberian orchestra has been characterized as symphonic metal.

Also, she studied with Pinchas Zukerman, a very notable violinist, in the classical genre.

The variety of genres that she has undertaken is notable.

I believe that the emotional style and the unique sound of her playing are also notable -- even though the editor doesn't like to hear about it. Josh Groban recently tweeted that no one sounds like her https://twitter.com/joshgroban/status/870506744446832641 If you watch videos of her playing, you can see that what she is doing with the bow is not what other violinists do. It's hard to put these things into words, but presumably some future scholar, studying her work, will be able to explain why she is able to make the violin sound like other instruments, such as electric guitar (Kashmir/Lady Grinning Soul) and tenor sax (Heavy Henry). It's hard to verbalize these things before the academic vocabulary characterizing her work is developed by scholars. There is a huge bias in wikipedia in favor of academic language developed by scholars, which results in ordinary people who try to describe this stuff in conversational English getting censored.

Another notable thing about her is her history of performing barefoot, which is visible on all of the DVD performances -- and some of the youtube videos listed above. She has inspired other strings players to play barefoot

personal life
She has been married https://twitter.com/theloosh/status/451945873573183488 https://www.instagram.com/p/mWvDamn18R/