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Why learn music? Why should someone learn to play strings?
Why should a person learn music, and in particular, why should somebody learn how to play a stringed instrument?
Tone III
There is another aspect to tone that heavily influences and even overshadows the previous two essays. As a string teacher advocate, I will now focus on how we can nudge ourselves into becoming better teachers by becoming aware of the tone in our life. There is a way in which we go about our day-to-day …
Tone Part II
Tone has another side that’s too often missed, hence this post. (Part I is the previous post on this blog.) What happens when we dictate everything we want as teachers for the student, and don’t notice our own tone in the process? What happens when we demand things from the parents of our students if …
Tone – Part I
Tone: a massively important element of what we teach and learn in violin, viola, cello, and doublebass
Easy string teacher tips for pro-development
Easy how-to tips to develop professionally as a violin, viola, cello or bass teacher
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The Myth of Violin Fragility & A True Confession
I am going to tell you the truth. The fragility of violins is something of a myth. Of course, violins will be broken if you drop them on a tile floor or if something heavy like a car or a human smashes down on top of them. Really there are myriad ways to damage a …
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Just Duet
Join Bernd and I for this special musical event featuring us playing viola and double bass duets. Sunday, 22 November 2020 at 2 pm. at Suzhou Arts Collective. Although it is a free, family-friendly concert, snacks will be for sale as well as the paintings in the gallery, so come on and enjoy yourself, and …
2020.11.07 Personal update from China
How quiet it is here on a Saturday morning, just laying in bed and reveling in nothing but the absence of noise. We’ve been in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China since April of 2019, at least for this most recent adventure. In total I have lived nearly 12 years in China so far. Pandemic On COVID-19, …
Save school orchestra – soul call for your help
School orchestras need help now. After spending the night at a Buddhist monastery in Suzhou, China, I reconfirmed my awareness that we must extend assistance to school orchestra teachers and the families of our students and potential students in order to get the message to school boards that orchestra is an integral part of a community that must be supported and sustained.
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Francesca Raimondi shares her experience teaching special needs violin students and the very young
Something amazing and fresh that I think you may very well enjoy! https://youtu.be/X4Lc3kGsWKQ
