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Subscribe to Violinist.com: Recent Top BlogsCarving a scroll - step by step - part XII By LUIS CLAUDIO MANFIOJuly 2, 2009 16:26
<p>I continue refinishing with my shaped scrapers. Now we have this:</p> <p><img alt="" src="http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj19/manfio/carvinga%20a%20scroll/DSC00696.jpg" /></p> Read more...
Violinist.com interview with Philippe Quint By Laurie NilesJune 30, 2009 21:18
Apparently it is not possible for Philippe Quint to play the Violin Concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold enough. "If I could play it three times during the concert – I would!" Philippe said, laughing. "It's one of those works that gives you an incredible amount of positive energy." He spoke to me on the phone from New York in early June, about his new recording of the Korngold, about Dorothy DeLay's uncanny ways, and about the day the Strad he plays went flying away in a taxi – without him.
"I instantly had something that's called 'love at first sight' with the Korngold concerto," Philippe said. "I heard Jascha Heifetz's recordings, and I think I heard Perlman's performance and I instantly knew, I literally ran right into the library and got the score and started learning it, right away." Read more...
Memorizing the Map By Karen AllendoerferJune 29, 2009 15:26
In this round of playing the violin and viola, I've been paying more attention to memorization of pieces. When I was growing up I did almost none of that. My teachers didn't require it and I think that lack was part of a larger educational philosophy of the time that was anti-"rote" memorization and "regurgitation" for many subjects, not just music. I partially agree with this school of thought, in that I don't think memorization is the be-all and end-all of learning a piece. I don't think it should stop there. But, I am starting to think that it should *start* there. I played a viola recital in April, my first recital in more years than I want to think about, and my first public performance ever of a piece from memory, without music. It was a short piece, a little under 5 minutes long, Rebecca Clarke's "Passacaglia on an Old English Tune." Given what other people manage to memorize--whole concertos, entire symphonies, multiple instrumental parts of entire symphonies--this one little viola part seemed like it should have been a surmountable challenge. And, I perspired through it without memory glitches, sweaty hands and all. However, the fear of forgetting (if not actual forgetting) intensified the nerves that I normally feel anyway. Read more...
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