Big concert today! We are playing Berwald's Symphony and I have to say that each movement is about 3 pages too long! It's like an exercise in how long can I...
... Oeps! Berwald wrote 4 symphonies, so we'll need a number! :-) I know my dad can't stand them, but I did give him my shaggy old Naxos CD as a giveaway. I...
hope the concert went well ! i've not played any Berwald - might avoid it in future if at all possible if the problematic reoccuring motive is featured...i...
We played Symphony Singularlie (Number 3 I believe). Actually it was quite an exciting concert and the Berwald kind of grew on me - it would be interesting to...
Hi Rhona - great to hear from you - especially when it's obvious that you should be doing counterpoint!!!!!! ;-) So what is Post Modernism? We're dying to...
Nr.3 - Singulière in C (1845): I shall have a wee listen some time! As for Post Modernism: This means many things to many people, but basically you had a...
Hi there, Sorry its been a long time since I last wrote to the club. It seems to be getting into a bad habit! Anyway I've been back from Germany since the end...
http://orchestract.com High quality Orchestral Accompaniment Playbacks for Classical Musicians. You can make music with an Orchestral Accompaniment adjusted to...
awful quiet in here.... hope everybody is well, times still flying by at a worrying speed down here - i go home 3 weeks tomorrow hurrah! everything is going ...
... Another biggy! Yes - you can make a BIG difference in tone! I always recommend 'De La Sonorité' by Marcel Moyse to work on this. The first excercise is...
"All adjustments come from movement of the lower jaw and widening or narrowing of the air passage between the lips..." ...well, not entirely all of course -...
Hello, it is me again and I have another question: Sometimes I am playing my flute and I get this airy tone. Not a really big airy tone but ebough to take some...
i'm not one to get all technical on you, but here's my experience: whenever i get that airy tone i eat something salty and drink some water. for some reason,...
... whenever ... What a strange thing to do! I know if you are too dry it can result in some diffusion in sound, but never heard these remedies. It's personal...
I have to agree with Dominy - usually tone problems like breathy sound are caused by an unfocused embouchure and airstream. I always tell my students to...
Hello, I have another important Question. I am going to try out headjoints this weekend and I would like to know. What should I test on it? What puts a...
"What should I test on it?" Try to establish the octave length of the flute/head joint by playing low C and sounding the C2 as a harmonic. Check with fingered...
Its so weird - my first semester gone already ! Its all so stressful - ive done no packing and all i have is one suitcase and a backpack to get all my stuff in...
hi everyone i was just wondering does anyone have a flute spond file its just i am doing a project for collage and i need a flute sound file to put on C.D ...
Having no idea what a spond file is - I have to pass. Talking of sponds, this is turning into quite a good week. Played trios on a boat yesterday for the...
Hello this is me Ryan and I have another question about some books. I'm going to the bookstore mon and I was wondering if any body could offer any suggestions...
Sorry - not to reply to you sooner Ryan - Seasonal Celebrations meant I was not near a computer! But perhaps this might be of use for next time! Simon Hunt has...
Seasonal Greetings to one and all - hope Santa was good to you all. I was given a gold flute!! But alas it is one twelth size and is a brooch - ah well I can...
Have a look at the Trevor Wye series. He has written a volume for each of several aspects of technique eg. Breathing, Tone, Articulation, Technique, Advanced ...
... Indeed - and he's a former student of the great Marcel Moyse, on whose technical books Trevor's are based! Indeed, I had lessons from Gareth Morris, but...
"more stressful have been the auditions I did for an acting role in some Bollywood production, the details of which are still vague (more as and when), but...
... some ... Erm...! Good luck with that !! I for one will be very interested to hear some more about it. Bollywood seems to be everywhere these days - last...
... Involved pretending to be someone else to someone else on a mobile phone also pretending to be someone else. Such is showbusiness! Was supposed to be...
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