This week from Strings Daily…
Mark Wood’s Rock-Violin Mission
At each stop on his Electrify Your Strings! tour, Mark Wood usually spends two days (though he sometimes stays for longer residencies) introducing his electric instruments and his pedagogy, which includes a heavy emphasis on improvisation and self-expression.
How to Maintain a Healthy Quartet Relationship
The chamber ensemble provides string players with the unique opportunity to experience music on a highly intimate level. But it’s a lot of work. In most cases, you’ll need to know your own musical part, be aware of your counterparts, work together with your mates to run the business of your ensemble, find repertoire that resonates with everyone, and perform with perfect balance, intonation, and uniformity.
Be a Better Chamber Player—Blending
Any string player with professional performance aspirations knows that there are five basic, yet essential, skills to master before stepping onstage. First: you must have established your own expressive tone. Second: a solid technique is critical.
Jorja Fleezanis on Emoting
If a person is uptight, physically in knots, they’re just not going to be able to get it out. It’s internal. They can move the shoulder, do this, do that, but if they’re still playing like a clam, I say, “Sing it out! Vocalize from the gut.”
WQXR Launches Flash Residency Program
Classical radio station WQXR (105.9 FM), New York City’s sole dedicated classical music station, is putting a fresh spin on the historical radio symphony model when it launches its first Ensemble-in-Residence program with the Knights, one of New York’s most talked-about young music groups. Read More.
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