Klarinet Archive - Posting 000224.txt from 2002/07

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Teaching methods -- was it Nurture or Nature?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:44:12 -0400

Your quote below reminded me of a couple things I read yesterday in the
calendar brochure for the Vancouver Symphony. Gustav Mahler is speaking
to Bruno Walther whi is admiring the mountain scenery in rural Austria:
"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already". Another quote,
same brochure - Brahms on composing: "It is not hard to compose, but it
is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table".

Audrey

William Wright wrote:
"Well, Dad," she replied, "I've found that it's really useful to role
> play. I ask the students in my master class to imagine that Beethoven
> and Chopin have materialized in the studio. What would they say to
> each other?

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