Entries from September 2005

September 29, 2005

Notes from my studies with Dr. Suzuki

Art Montzka
Suzuki Sensei and “One Finger” Playing for Better Tone Quality.

Often when Suzuki Sensei demonstrated his clear, bright and big tone, we would lift each finger off of the bow leaving only his index finger and thumb. He would call this “One Finger” playing. Amazingly, there was never a change in the richness of [...]

September 27, 2005

Joshua Bell and Tchaikovsky

I’m listening to Joshua Bell performing Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto live in Berlin with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. It’s on KUER.
I’ve played in the Utah Symphony as Joshua performed. I’ve listened to him perform Mozart for Gingold’s Birthday Concert in Indiana when Joshua was only 14 years old. [...]

September 27, 2005

on pedagogy

It’s 11:18 pm in my neck of the woods and my honey isn’t home yet. So I am researching blogs. Two blogs in particular:
Urban Semiotic
and
Hoarded Ordinaries
And I am seeing something extraoridnary that is happening in the blogoshpere, something that is dear to my heart.
Teaching.
I am a [...]

September 26, 2005

more guinea pig activity…

highlight what I want to link

Thank you Mr. David Boles!

Very nice! Still just looking around and making myself cozy. I really do love it here! Everything is so nice and shiny and brand spaking new!
For my next act I will create a trackback link… hmm what I tried didn’t work… [...]

September 26, 2005

“I never knew what grand really was…

(taken september 14, 2005 – the first time I had seen it)
…until I saw the canyon. It’s a perspective that pulls the busy human engine of desires to a quiet halt. Taking the long view across that vermillion abyss attenuates humanity to quieter internal rhythms, the spirit of ice ages, and we look, [...]

September 26, 2005

My secret blog

This is a photo from my family’s cruise to Jamaica 2 years ago. I love this picture of the sunset from the ship. We had such a wonderful time in Jamaica even though because none of my plans worked out. We ended up spending the day at the Ritz Carlton which was divine. It [...]

September 26, 2005

Just a test – OH! It worked! This is where we are going next April – M&D and Sis and me. Cinque Terra! Loverly, idnit?

We are going there after the 14th Suzuki World Convention in Turin, Italy next April.   

September 26, 2005

Protected: confused and delighted

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

September 25, 2005

First Post

Thanks to Boles, I now have a new wordpress.com site! Which is cool. I’m just getting used to it (what do I do about link colors? Oh yeah, that’s all taken care of in styles) Mindless bathering on and on. So, no I can’t upload my own style (yet). Good news, I like this style. [...]