by Irma | Jan 23, 2020 | eLearning Review, Instruments & Players, Violin & Violinists
RAVEL TZIGANE Cornerstone Lesson Review Professor Hagai Shaham explains the many topics of this genial composition, showing the parts which mainly express the typical Hungarian romantic style. For example, how to achieve the proper expression of the piece and connect...
by Irma | Nov 14, 2019 | eLearning Review, Music teaching, Violin & Violinists
SAINT SAENS RONDO CAPRICCIOSO ONLINE VIOLIN LESSON CORNERSTONE LESSON VIOLIN VIRTUOSO REPERTOIRE The composition by Saint-Saens "Rondo Capriccioso" is dedicated to the 18th-century violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and there's a very much audible Spanish influence in the...
by Irma | Aug 28, 2019 | Violin & Violinists, Words on Music
Cutting edges of violin playing Last week we wrote about Malwina Sosnowksi and her adventures in Brazil. When she returned to Switzerland she found herself within 10 days ending up booking a flight to New Delhi and heading off to beautiful India. This time as a...
by Irma | Aug 28, 2019 | Violin & Violinists, Words on Music
Rudolf Koelman's legendary phone conversation with Jascha Heifetz - on video Rudolf Koelman was one of Jascha Heifetz last pupils. In the eighties and nineties, he was one of the major violin talents in the Netherlands. He studied with Herman Krebbers. Later, as a...
by Irma | Aug 28, 2019 | Cello & Cellists, E-Learning, e-learning services, Instruments & Players, Piano & Pianists, Violin & Violinists
Why Online Music Lessons Are So Effective by Paul Casserly With the dawn of the internet, there is now a decades-old argument as to whether or not learning an instrument or piece of music online is better, or if musicians should merely stick with the traditional...
by Irma | Aug 28, 2019 | Violin & Violinists, Words on Music
André Rieu - "Heringe Biete" concerts and Johann Strauss Orchestra By Irma de Jong I remember André Rieu and his “Heringe biete” (Maastricht dialect for “to bite a haring”) Concerts that he used to organise around Carnival, in the beginning of the nineties in...
