By Jennifer Loux June 9, 2014
By Selma Gokcen May 6, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen March 10, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags accuracy, activity, Alexander Technique, cello, cellobello, conditioning, conservatory, Coordination, delivery, F.M. Alexander, Gokcen, habit, hours of practicing, necessity, Practice Room, Primary Control, relentless repetitive motions, repetition, results, Selma, the Use of the Self, young instrumentalists
By Arnold Steinhardt March 4, 2014
Subjects Artists
Tags Arnold, beauty of phrasing, career, cello, cellobello, David Soyer, Guarneri String Quartet, In the Key of Strawberry, incisiveness, intelligence, Italy, Jacqueline du Pré, Marlboro Music Festival, memories, memory-inducing objects, musical world, obituary, Peter Wiley, posters, remembrance, Spoleto, Steinhardt, string quartet, students, teacher
By Martha Baldwin March 3, 2014
Subjects Practicing
By Arnold Steinhardt February 24, 2014
Subjects Artists
Tags Arnold, Arnold Steinhardt, artist, bold, bow control, Brahms B Major piano trio, cellist, cello, cellobello, David, David Soyer, distinctive, Ford Honors, Ford Motor Company, Guarneri String Quartet, historian, impeccable intonation, John Dalley, Marlboro Music School, Michael Tree, music, musicians, Soyer, Steinhardt, Style, Touring, Travel, tribute, University of Michigan, writer
By Thomas Rosenberg January 27, 2014
Subjects Chamber Music, Practicing
Tags Adjustments, chamber music, expressive intonation, fuzzy sound, good instrument tuning, great intonation, group intonation, hand position, intonation, intonation exercises, left hand position, Listening, onion, open strings, patience, rehearsing, Rosenberg, string groups, student ensembles, Thomas, time management, tuning, working
By Selma Gokcen January 20, 2014
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, attention, available energy, creative, daily practice, deeper understand, effort, Einstein, flexible, free state of alertness, full attention, Gokcen, impressions, listening intently, living in question, Mind, motivation, partial attention, Patrick Macdonald, paying attention, refined skills, refining skills, releasing excessive tension, Selma, sensations, Theory of Everything, unanswerable questions, wasted energy