Monthly Archives: June 2017
Las Mañanitas
In school, I studied Spanish from the third grade through college. My high school Spanish teacher is the person I credit with being my best teacher ever – I had four years of Spanish with him, and proctored for him as well. He helmed the National Spanish Honors Society, of which I was a member, […]
Shifting Away
If the final Seitz concerto movement exists in the Suzuki repertoire to help students conquer double stops, the Vivaldi concerto’s job must be to ensure that shifting to third position and back becomes old hat. I have a whole book of position shifting exercises that I’ve dabbled with – I daresay more focus there would […]