I don’t
think anyone ever played more than 10 bars of anything! I remember being very frustrated
with Bach – C minor Suite in particular. I wanted to have some overview
of the fugue, and Harvey
never did heard the whole thing until I was on stage.
--D
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?
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