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July 1, 2006 at 5:46 PM

Ah, summer. Summer is good for lazy bums such as myself. I woke up around noon today, ate lunch, and watched videos of Mr. Szeryng on YouTube. I've been practicing scales a lot more often. I had always heard about Flesch from other people. they would say "Ugh, I hate these Flesch scales my teacher makes me practice every week." I had never had any experience with Flesch scales until the past month. My first encounter with Carl Flesch was when I played Haydn's Violin Concerto No. 1 in C. I bought the edition with Flesch's fingerings and cadenzas from C.F. Peters.

Well, ever since my teacher went over the scales with me, I've had a difficult time not practicing them. My intonation has even gotten a lot better. I think that is the greatest thing that I will take away from this book.

Anyways, I've been working on my quartet music, too. My quartet is playing the andante from Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 in a minor "Rosamunde" and Bartok's (arr. Tibor Sedley) "From the Diary of a Fly" from the Mikrokosmos studies for piano. My quartet is meeting tomorrow to go over the pieces again because last Monday didn;t go as well as it could have.

This Monday, we have a masterclass with Christopher Rex, the principal cellist for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. I hope learn as much from this week's masterclass as I did from our masterclass with Robert Spano.

Yeah, Flesch is great...I love how his idea of doing one cotave scales on the four different strings...glad you're enjoying your scales! :D