On 9 May 2007 at 22:29, John Howell wrote: > Kodály had it right > when he said, "Only the best musicians should be > PERMITTED to teach children."
Many people confuse "the best musicians" with "the best performers," the determiment of the students involved. [] > Back a number of years a colleague in grad school > at Indiana was asked by Igor Kipnis to > participate in a recording of the Bach > multi-harpsichord concertos in Germany. He came > back amazed by the recording engineers, who could > not only read music but could read full score and > instead of saying, "there's something odd > sounding just a little before letter G," they > would say, "the third harpsichord is playing a Db > instead of a D in measure 97." That's not a bad > set of role models!! The student recording engineer who did my viol consort's recent recording project was just such a person -- he read the score, he had comments on various *musical* aspects of the takes and was a very, very valuable collaborator in helping us get down the best playing we could accomplish. I can't wait to hear the final results. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
