oh gosh you scared me Pepe! Good, glad I didn't upset you. I have shed my "thick
skin"
earned over 5 painful years (to me) at Juilliard and try not to, as we say here,
'stick
my foot in my mouth' too often.

I am only now starting to teach, younger students as I am in New Hampshire, at
least a
world away from you, and have discovered sadly that the instruction is not
anywhere near
the level it should be, as close as we are to Boston. I should much prefer to
take
students at a higher level, as I haven't trained as an educator, but one must
start
somewhere especially where I now live. I have gotten to know many of the
cellists in the
area and get a feel for what the music is like here, and the more I know the
more upset I
get that there is so little high quality music going on here.

I think it's funny that Harvey would say his solo was lousy. He probably said
that about
most of his performances. What a perfectionist. I would love to someday figure
out what
exactly it was that he heard in his head! It must have been something amazing!

Regarding the '10 measures of each piece in the cello repertoire' I have to also
laugh,
speaking of perfectionism. I still, to this day, can play all but the first -
not 10, but
4 - measures of the Haydn D Major concerto pretty darn well, but that first 4
measures I
still get psyched out from spending, if I remember correctly, almost 3 months
'screwing
them up' over and over in Harvey's studio until I finally got up the courage to
just move
on to something else and hope that he forgot what I was supposed to be
'learning'.
Unfortunately, I am not able to remember if I learned anything from that
particular
exercise. I am willing to bet that will haunt me for years to come. Does
everybody else
have pieces that they especially remember playing just '10 measures' of?

~Peace starts with a smile~



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