HA! how funny. sort of ;-)

It helped that I was every bit as hard on myself as he was, but of course that
becomes a
double-edged sword doesn't it. I don't think he ever heard me perform except
when Karl
and I were both learning the Elgar Concerto and only one of us was to actually
compete in
the Juilliard concerto competition. Karl and I both knew that he was the one who
had been
chosen, it wasn't a 'secret'. Harvey was shocked that I knew how to perform.
That was
only the first time I really got ticked. How could he know how we played if we
only
played 30 seconds at a time? How could he get a real idea of how to fix a
problem?
Anyhow, he was very very good at what he did, I just felt it lacked a certain
depth and
that I ultimately stayed way too long.

-Dorothy


--- Diane Chaplin <cello@...> wrote:

> Yes, I remember vividly that he attended my master's recital, because after
> the concert instead of saying the nice things that other teachers might say,
> he barked out, "You were flat! You tuned your cello flat!" And you know,
> when I listened to the tape, my strings were a tad flat it turned out.
>
> --D
>
>



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