Sign up for our Email NewsletterHi everyone! Welcome to my page. If you play the classical, electric, smash, bluegrass, appalachian, or any other kind of violin, I want to hear from you!I work at The Starling Project. If you haven't already heard about us, then get with the program and check us out (www.starling.org). Even if you haven't heard about Starling Project, I am SURE you have seen our totally amazing violin website www.violinmasterclass.com which is winning all kinds of awards, and oh yes, it is FREE, so check it out and don't worry--we won't make you pay anything, ever!Violinmasterclass.com is already setting records for having the most users in cyberspace so now I want to set a record for having the myspace page with the most number of Friends who are violinists--so add me to your friends and pass me along to everyone you know. Some of you wanted to know how Prof S started the website, so here it is:"February 2001
The idea came to me on a flight. What would be the best way to introduce the finest violin playing techniques to students anywhere in the world? The information has been available since 1929 in books such as Die Kunst des Violinspiels by Karl Flesch and The Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching by Ivan Galamian (1962)-and since then, advances in the field warrant another treatise on the subject. But hardly any young students ever read these books. Human motions are intrinsically difficult to describe in print. To a non-violinist, such as a parent, the motions described are as incomprehensible after reading as they were before. Most readers are adult students at the end of their studies, and by then, it's too late. What would be the best way to teach a level of violin technique that has only been available to students able to audition into the world's best classes, such as those by Carl Flesch, Leopold Auer, Ivan Galamian, and Dorothy DeLay?Motion pictures, where a picture is worth a thousand words, seemed to provide part of the answer. With film, motions can be demonstrated. And to reach struggling students all over the world, it seemed that the time was ripe to use a revolutionary new tool. While the Flesch and Galamian books may be hard to find in small towns in China, Armenia, or Russia, the Internet is becoming omnipresent. A violin technique web site, as such, could exist almost anywhere as a living document. It could be continually updated and expanded. And more, it could be a virtual international community for violin students and aficionados."
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