http://historicalnotes.info Historical notes about violins, their makers, and violinists. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:54:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES "Perhaps it is because I belong to an older school, or it may be because I laid stress on technic because of its necessity as a means of expression—at any rate I worked hard at it. Naturally, one should never practice any technical difficulty too long at a stretch. ... http://historicalnotes.info/archives/309 THE INFLUENCE OF THE TEACHER "Of course, all artistic playing represents essentially the mental control of technical means. But to acquire the latter in the right way, while at the same time developing the former, calls for the best of teachers. The problem of the teacher is to prevent his pupils ... http://historicalnotes.info/archives/304 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: SOME HINTS FOR THE CONCERT PLAYER Maud Powell is often alluded to as our representative "American woman violinist" which, while true in a narrower sense, is not altogether just in a broader way. It would be decidedly more fair to consider her a representative American violinist, without stressing the term ... http://historicalnotes.info/archives/301 VIOLIN MASTERY AND ITS ATTAINMENT "Violin mastery expresses more or less the aspiration to realize an ideal. It is a hope, a prayer, rather than an actual fact, since nothing human is absolutely perfect. Ysaye, perhaps, with his golden tone, comes nearest to my idea of what violin mastery should be, ... http://historicalnotes.info/archives/299