Weekend inspiration
I won’t pretend to know the first thing about classical music — far from it. But you don’t have to be schooled in the classical genre to appreciate an inspirational musician (and teacher) when you see one. Watch this video, and notice how Perlman approaches his work as a teacher with humor and playfulness, and how how the masterclass students respond to it. Totally f’n awesome.
Stay inspired this weekend, and practice hard! I will be trying to do the same… 
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Simply amazing. I think all teachers shohuld be like that. It helps students to relate at a deeper level and it makes them eager to learn, not to mention is a lot more fun to have class.
There’s a fine line between a great teacher and a bad teacher, my teacher at uni managed to cross over to the dark side a little too often with me by showing his frustration with my progress. He realised that I didn’t really like classical guitar but didn’t know how to inspire me into practicing enough to get through my degree.. so I quit playing and switched my major. He was an amazing vituosic player obvously frustrated by teaching!
Hey, Lori,
Thanks for bringing this up. Perlman used to play with du Pre and her husband in a quartet. And I saw a video of them trading instruments backstage. du Pre is in fact really good at piano as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjWV5rWaSWE
Perlman always amazed me with his clean bowing techniques.
we need more teachers and human beings like him
WOW some teacher
He stays so close to his students, it is easy to pick something up from him.
These are the teachers you remember your whole life.
hugs
Gwen
I’d love to see this whole movie. I think it’s called “I know I played every note.”
I particularly like the performance that he gets out of the one girl, when he gets her to slow down (for virtuoso purposes!) and not be so stingy with her bow. Total goosebumps.
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Bye Lori have a safe and fun trip deep into the territory of the unknown. I’ll try to broadcast jazz music when you are there to keep you amused. How are you going to hear your wah pedal without electricity???
Hold it real close to her ear
Very very very inspirate, the music is not means “i can play these” they have a lot of things in your subsconcience and your personality.
Weno
saludos! Genial que una chica sea tán buena músico y parezca tán buena persona ^^ . Increible
ByebyeZ
Well, the guy is funny, but I hate people who force others to play music a certain way. It’s up to the musicien to play a song the way he wants to play it. Teachers should teach only technical stuff. I don’t see what’s good to tell: “slow down here, do that there, etc.”
So, definitely not inspirational for me.
As far as I can tell, Perlman doesn’t mean to force his students to play a certain way, but rather only suggested things to try. At a master level, it’s no longer about technique, but about feeling and interpretation of the music, isn’t it?
In any case, I personally found this video very inspiring, and I truly wish for a teacher like Perlman. Thanks for the link Lori!
“At a master level, it’s no longer about technique, but about feeling and interpretation of the music, isn’t it?”
Exactly what I meant : at a master level, you’re supposed to already know YOUR OWN FEELING.
Too many classical players are like little robots/clones.
The video clearly shows a man making fun of a technically talented girl who plays a certain piece of music the way she chose to.
Of course, she also chose to participate to the class but it’s too bad that, as the little robot that she is, she blindly follows the dictatorship of her “master” when it come to feeling and interpretation.