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Thursday, July 18, 2013

On fearless performing

Jeff Nelson, Canadian Brass hornist and Indiana University Associate Professor gives ten tips on fearless performing.

Some great advice here, folks.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

NY Times: Mozart vs. the Beatles

Another excellent contribution by Garry Gutting in the NY Times philosophy series called The Stone. This one concerns high art vs. low art. Loved it. Link
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Ben Wyatt
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I am a cellist and teacher living in Blacksburg, Virginia. I play mostly chamber music on both modern and Baroque cello, and teach through the Suzuki method. I have been incredibly fortunate to have studied with some of the best teachers, and try to follow their example as I work each day. My principal teachers were Robert Jesselson prior to college, Stephen Geber at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Ronald Leonard at the University of Southern California. I graduated with my DMA from USC as the Outstanding Doctoral Graduate and continued to work in the Los Angeles area for a couple years before moving to New York with my wife to support her professional development. While there I got involved with the Suzuki method through the teacher training course taught by Pam Devenport at the School for Strings. Since the fall of 2007 I have been teaching in Blacksburg at a wonderful community music school called the Renaissance Music Academy and playing chamber music with wonderful colleagues here and there.
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