Klarinet Archive - Posting 001099.txt from 1999/01

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Heifetz and his violin
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:52:08 -0500

avrahm galper wrote:

<<<I heard a story from Jim Campbell that someone asked Heifetz if
his sound was the result of the violin he played. Heifetz held up the
violin and said: " I don'nt hear anything"!>>>

Similar story: I was at a master class at Pacific Lutheran University held
by none other than Bud Herseth (roughly the orchestral trumpet equivalent of
Stanley Drucker, for you clarinet-only people; he's been principal trumpet
of the Chicago Symphony for over half a century.)

A kid, maybe 12 or so, asked Mr. Herseth "what you do to your trumpet that
makes it sound so good?" Without missing a beat, he answered (with a large
twinkle in his eye): "I practiced it."

kjf

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