January 26, 2005 at 4:09 AM

Today I had a wonderful lesson with Mr. Perlman. More an more I appreciate his non complicated way of teaching. He is so nicely straight forward, tells very clear what is going on, what is good and what (and how) to work on it.
Again I played Tchaikovksy Valse Scherzo. this tme already a lot better then last week with Mr Weilerstein, but still quite tense. Somehow I don't have the relaxing of the armpit quite down yet :) Seriously, I think we got more at the core of where the problem really lays: I was trying to show hat I had worked hard, tht in a year time I definetly did not loose my ability to play and all those other insecurity flabbers that I created in my mind. Mr. Perlman suggested that I read "The inner game of tennis / music", something which Miss Delay was very fond off appearantly. A lot of my insecurity lays in the way I practice. If something goes wrong I often get frustrated or sometimes even downright angry. I had a teacher how would call me during he 8 years I would study with her a cow when I would do something wrong and every time I play out of tune I had this "booooooo" sound in my head :) This is not a joke, I really do.
Anyways, Mr. Perlman told me a little bit about "unemotional" practicing, sarting out with 5 minuts at the time. Don't grade what you do, just observe and try again. When something is out of tune, don't go S**t that was nasty, but say that was too high/ too low, and correct the whole passage instead of just the jump.
All of this is ofcourse stuff I have known now for a while, and I knew I should do something with it, but hearing from Mr.P. hopefully will give me that extra push in the right direction.

While teaching Mr. Perlman came with this brilliant idea of a "practicing competition"... You go on stage, get a new piece and 15 minutes long you practice in front of a jury. The one who practice most effectively wins... I just started the sentence that that would be fun in studioclass, wen I decided to keep my mouth shut, but it was already too late. I guess we'll hav one soon...
Actually appearantly Mr. Galmian did something simular. He would give a student in studioclass a brand new eude and then practice it with the student in front of the other students. Sounds like a great idea, as long as I am the one listening to the lesson and not playing! :-)

I am excited. I really feel I have gained a lot in this lesson, now I just need to keep hold of it and internalize it, which might take some time. But I am going to try everything out before and during the concerts in Russia and see what happens.

Tomorrow a lesson with Charles Neidich, a wonderful clarinettist, on Bartok Contrasts. I am looking forward to that, but I still have some practicing to do on that.

Greetings from NYC,
Carla

From Scott 68
Posted on January 27, 2005 at 2:15 PM

wow that would be so awesome to be in a classroom with the greatest volinist in the world

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