Tag: Battey
By Robert Battey December 15, 2013
Subjects Practicing
Tags accents, alignment, Awareness, Bach, Bach Cello Suites, bar lines, Battey, Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio, Brahms Double Concerto, Capucon, cello, cellobello, communication, complexity, conservatory, counting, dissonance, Feuermann, focused listening, great artists, great composers, intelligent artist, interpreter, interpretive decisions, intonation, melody, metrical organization, musical critic, musical phrasing, performer, phrase lengths, phrasing, powerful, recordings, resolution, robert, Rostropovich, score-study, slurs, studying, stunning effect, stylistic conventions, text, vibrato, Washington Post, Yo-Yo Ma, youtube
By Robert Battey September 8, 2013
Subjects Repertoire
Tags Achilles’ heel, alterations, Battey, cello, charming, composer, compositions, creativity, difficulty, effects, experimenting with rosin, flawed works, glissando, gummed-up fingers, increased tension, Leopold Auer, lyrical, master, melody, modern artists, musical transitions, opening material, options, Pezzo Capriccioso, Piatigorsky, recordings, repeated notes, robert, Rococo Variations, rosin, Rostropovich, sections, sections of music, show piece, sticky problem with shifting, Tchaikovsky, transitions, trill, virtuoso
By Robert Battey January 16, 2013
Subjects Repertoire
Tags accuracy, ambiguity, Anna Magdalena, Anner Bylsma, artistic, autograph, Bach, Bach Cello Suites, Bach Suites, Bach's original intentions, Bach’s precise intentions, Barenreiter, Battey, careless, cello, cellobello, challenges, colors, complexities, conclusions, curiosity, dilemma, Editions, editors, enjoyment, experimentation, flawed, genius, historical, inconsistent copies, instrument control, Instruments, interpretive creativity, interpretive ideas, Janos Starker, judgment, liberation, lute, lute arrangement, meaningful interpretations, monochromatic, normal teaching model, Pablo Casals, painting, parameters, paris, personal research, personality, phrasing, Pierre Fournier, printing, publications, rainbows, recordings, repertoire, response, Rhythm, robert, sloppy, slurs, study, Teaching, text booklet, textual, The Fencing Master, transcribing, uncertainties, virtuosity
By Robert Battey January 7, 2013
Subjects Artistic Vision
Tags Battey, Beethoven, commitment, critic, expertise, Heifetz, patience, Philosophy, problems, robert, Strings Magazine, traveling
By Robert Battey February 3, 2012
Subjects Practicing
Tags Accomplishment, Battey, cello, cellobello, character, Coordination, Development, dynamics, Effective, ensemble, harmony, Janos, Listening, music, perfection, Rhythm, sight-reading, Starker, success, Technique
By Robert Battey January 1, 2012
Subjects Practicing
Tags ability, Battey, cello, cellobello, chamber music, ensemble, Observation, Practice, Rhythm, robert, sight-reading, success, Technique, virtuoso
By Robert Battey December 1, 2011
Subjects Practicing
Tags art, Battey, cello, cellobello, chamber music, coaching, conservatory, Development, discipline, ensemble, frustration, goals, music, music-making, robert, sight-reading, students, Teaching, Technique, workshops