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If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it. Jascha Heifetz (Greatest Violinst to Ever Live)
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Monday YouTube Fix: Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Mark O’Connor & Edgar Meyer
I guess this clip is predictably awesome. I don’t care what these four musicians are playing, if they are playing together it is going to be special. Even ‘Hush Little Baby’! As people who are at the...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Time for Three
Time for Three is one of the most original and unique sounding chamber ensembles playing today and I am very lucky to call them dear friends. They are an inspiration to many of us for both their...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Jascha Heifetz
I’ll never forget the first time I heard Heifetz play the violin. It was the summer of 1998 and I was in Breckenridge playing with the National Repertory Orchestra. My friend John Grillo was in the...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Gil Shaham – Barber Violin Concerto
I don’t know about you, but when I was 11 years old I sure as heck wasn’t soling with the Israel Philharmonic. Gil Shaham has been a staple of the violin world for so long that it seems impossible...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Hilary Hahn
Last week, my wife and I had the privilege of seeing Hilary Hahn perform the Korngold Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kennedy Center here in Washington. What a stunning...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax and the LSO
I could listen to these three gentlemen play Beethoven indefinitely and never tire of it. The delicacy that Isaac Stern plays the violin with in this performance is unbelievable, even at the age of...
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Monday YouTube Fix: Arthur Grumiaux
Simply put, Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux (1921-1986) is one of the great artists of the 20th century. My favorite aspects of Grumiaux’s playing are his interpretations and the evenness of his...
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Monday YouTube Fix: David Oistrakh – Sibelius Violin Concerto
The Sibelius Violin Concerto is one of the most intense concertos ever written for the violin. I personally love how it wastes absolutely no time whatsoever getting down to business. The soloist is...
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