Sheila Nelson and her work in Tower Hamlets
In the 1980s, string pedagogue Sheila Nelson took her seminal teaching techniques to underprivileged schools in the London borough of...
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Kopelman Quartet offers lesson in chamber music playing
I'm just back from Wigmore Hall, where I watched the Kopelman Quartet demonstrate chamber music playing at its best: exquisite...
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Arnold Steinhardt: ‘Don’t put your parents in hock to buy a violin’
A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Arnold Steinhardt, leader of the Guarneri Quartet for 40 years, for the Cozio website. Steinhardt is...
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A Storioni violin that still thinks it’s a viola
Here are some photos I took when I went to interview Arnold Steinhardt for Cozio.com. They're pretty terrible pictures taken with my...
Ariane Todes
Lionel Tertis offers hair styling advice
I discovered My Viola and I, the autobiography of Lionel Tertis, in the library at Magic Mountain. It's a charming read with great...
Ariane Todes
Leading pedagogue blasts luthiers
I discovered this tirade in a seminal string pedagogical work: 'It is most regrettable that our present-day instrument-makers take so...
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Fritz Kreisler: ‘To practise is a bad habit’
I've been raiding the library of the Magic Mountain library and came across The Memoirs of Carl Flesch. He's not the most compelling...
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Fritz Kreisler: Four Weeks in the Trenches
The great violinist served in the Austrian Army during the First World War. Here he gives a moving and deeply humane account of his time...