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Stefan79
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(6/30/01 5:09:08 pm)
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Future
cellist(s)...?
Today, some friends of my parents were visiting, and they had
brought their grand children (6 & 8 year old), my brother and
his wife were also here with their 6 year old.
I was sitting in
the living room, practicing Dvorák, when the three of them just
appeared. They wanted me to tell them everything about the cello.
How old it was, if it was a boy or a girl cello and so on. I got to
play Twinkle at least four
times...
After a
while they decided that they should test me, so they would point at
a measure in my Dvorák music and make me play it. It was a great
exercise! They would
also point at measures in the score and make me play all kinds of
different parts. I wouldn't have done this otherwise, so I guess
they could teach me something about playing the cello...It really
was interesting for all four of us.
When two
of them were outside (chasing frogs by the pond together with the
cat), I got to perform "Pippi Longstockings" and so on in the living
room.
The
little girl that was listening, said a couple of times: "Don't stop
playing, I like to feel the sound!" Wouldn't she make a great
cellist?
When her
mother called for her, she thanked me and then said to my cello: "I
had a great time listening to you, could you please sing for me
again sometime?", I told her that my cello would be happy to do
that. Then she gave my cello (not me) a big hug.
I think
we might have three very interested young cellists to be here...
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Stefan
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Laura
Wichers
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(6/30/01 5:58:59 pm)
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Re: Future
cellist(s)...?
Wonderful!!! As to the little girl's comment, I think I remember
reading something about Gary Hoffman saying how he just knew the
cello should be his instrument because it felt right. So who knows?
Maybe she'll be the next Natalia Gutman or Zara Nelsova
or...
Laura
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Stefan79
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Posts: 303
(6/30/01 6:55:39 pm)
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Re: Future
cellist(s)...?
Who knows...now all I have to do is to make her parents buy her a
cello...hehe...
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Stefan
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bridge
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(6/30/01 9:36:24
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Corrina
Connor
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(7/2/01 8:24:56 pm)
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Hurray!
What a lovely thing! I was at a Suzuki camp a couple of years ago,
and a little violinist, who at that stage couldn't read music, was
watching me practice the G major Prelude for a masterclass. She was
fascinated by the printed music, and commented on how the printed
notes made patterns, which I had never noticed before, because I was
'reading', not 'seeing'. Hearing somebody talk about symmetry (not
that she used that word, being five years old) and music in such a
way was a completely new concept to me. Anyway, then she asked me to
play certain bars, just as Stefan's friends did, and compared the
way my bow moved compared with how the notes moved.
Anyway,
to cut a long story short, when I saw her 7 months later, last July,
she had ceased the violin, and was playing cello!
The most
remarkable thing about the whole thing was that last August I was
reading about the Violin Sonatas and Partitas and an interpretation
of the facsimile edition. The book made the point that Bach's
manuscript is very pictorial, and the accompanying CD showed how the
written music influenced the interpretation, dynamics etc - closely
bunched semiquavers played quicker and more urgently than more
spaced ones etc.....believe it or not, the little girl had exactly
the same idea as this 'scholarly book'.
I know it's off
topic, but it is sort of the same
thing.
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