Everything you need to know about violin playing (but were never taught)
Musical timing and closure, hearing and thinking for ourselves – just some of the things that teaching often fails to help us with,...
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Jul 17, 2014
Violin practice is so over-rated
If you've been trying to notch up 10,000 hours of practice in the hope of being deemed talented, spurred on by Malcolm Gladwell's rule...
Jun 14, 2014
Lionel Tertis offers hair styling advice
I discovered My Viola and I, the autobiography of Lionel Tertis, in the library at Magic Mountain. It's a charming read with great...
Jun 6, 2014
Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’
I've been raiding the library of the Magic Mountain library and came across The Memoirs of Carl Flesch. He's not the most compelling...
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