Klarinet Archive - Posting 000276.txt from 2004/09

From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: noise, was: giving lessons in residence
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:54:45 -0400

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
>> I remember hearing an interview a few years ago
>> with a concert violinist, it may have been Joshua
>> Bell. He said that if he was in a hotel and wished
>> to practice, he would turn up the TV very loud
>> while he was practicing. It seems that people
>> were much more tolerant of the noise of the TV
>> than to the sound of the violin. Interesting...
>
> If I were in that hotel, I would be asking him to turn the TV off so
> that I could listen better!

One of the things I miss from my old apartment in Manhattan (I now live
in Queens, NY) is that my next door neighbor was a professional violinist
(there was also a cellist and a bass player in the building). His studio
was next to my bedroom, so I'd hear him practicing late at night when I
went to bed. For about three months, I got to fall asleep to the sounds of
the Mendelsson concerto. The flip side, of course, was waking up sunday
mornings to the sounds of his 5 and 6 year old students...

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Jeremy A. Schiffer
1L, Fordham School of Law

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