JULY Studio News
Saturday, July 3, 2021 by Cortney Baker | Uncategorized
July tuition
is due at your first lesson of the month. Consult your monthly invoice for the exact amount.
Ways to pay:
- MAIL CHECK: 814 Pineland Dr, Cary, 27511
- ONLINE PAYMENT: PayPal (include fee) or Google Pay (no fee)
What to do:
Reply to your invoice email on the 1st and let me know how you will send tuition this month.
1. Check is in the mail,
2. PayPal link on invoice (you will pay the 2.9% fee), or
3. Google Pay (I will need to send you money request to go this route. I will send out requests to everyone who chose this option prior)
July Schedule
Summer lessons are scheduled from July 5 to 30.
Log in to your MyMusicStaff portal to see your specific lesson dates, times and location. Also included in your account: the link to access the Zoom webpage, previous lesson notes, the monthly studio news, and much more!
Group Classes
Group Classes will not meet during the summer months.
Parent Education
I have loaded several articles to the Library & Downloads page in your MMS portal with articles and handouts for parents. Find a title that interests you and read it! I highly encourage you to take a moment this month to choose one and read it. There is much value in motivation for you, the Suzuki parent. Let these articles give you that blessing!!
This month I want to highlight an online article:
Play It Again Sam—How to Implement Listening in Home Practice by Jennifer Burton. A brief article with several ideas of how and why to listen daily. https://suzukiassociation.org/news/play-it-again-sam-how-to-implement-listening-2/ Let me know what you think!
Toggle over to the Online Resources Tab>Parent Education folder to find this article. View it online, Download it or Print it!
If you have time, send me your reaction, thoughts. etc. I would love to know what stands out to you.
Suzuki Book Recordings
New recordings of the Suzuki Books 1-3 performed by violinist Hilary Hahn have been released! Use this link to read more and/or purchase from iTunes, Amazon Music or Alfred websites: https://www.alfred.com/suzuki-violin-overview/
Special Listening
Just a reminder that wonderful videos and audio recordings of professional performers can be seen/heard on YouTube. Use this as the Special Listening assignment for each week. This month's highlighted violinist is Jascha Heifetz (see notes below).
There are other recordings - enjoy looking around and learning more about this great artist.
Enjoy!
Jascha Heifetz (1901)
By far the greatest performer of the modern recording age. Born in 1901, died in 1987, he is one of the very few, if not the only one of, players who can hit the high note at the end of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and give it vibrato in the fifth of a second or so of its playing time.
He became legendary with his recording of Zigeunerweisen, written by another performer on this list, which showcases almost every technique a violinist par excellence should have. It became Heifetz’s signature piece. After a slow segment, the fast part incorporates hair-raising pizzicato and bowing passages at the same time. Heifetz was more than equal to the task. His admirers have all expressed wonderment at his marvelous tone quality, however difficult the piece of music he was performing.
Heifetz is seen by many as the greatest talent on the violin since the beginning of the recording age. From his earliest public performance at the age of five, to his lengthy career in the US where he relocated later, he made an impact with his masterful technique and arrangements for violin. He also made a significant contribution to teaching in his later years. Here he is playing Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto in D major.
Concerto for Violin, P.I.Tchaikovsky, mvt 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFaq9kTlcaY
Caprice No. 24, N.Paganini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPcnGrie__M&list=RDvPcnGrie__M#t=13
Wieniawski Polonaise No. 1 in D Major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21dsRBeIy8A&list=RDvPcnGrie__M&index=4
ZOOM Virtual Lessons
Thank you all for continuing to work on establishing lesson etiquette online. A few reminders:
- Set up your lesson space with ample time to log in 5 minutes before your lesson time. (music stand, music, tuned instrument, etc)
- Please have the video in landscape (horizontal) setting so I can see both arms. Test out your bow arm at the tip...can you see your bow hold in the picture with your arm extended? I do not need to see your music stand, that can be off to the side of the camera (your left side when you are facing the screen).
- Turn off as many Wi-Fi devices in your house as you are able. The more devices you have accessing your router, the more delays and cut outs happen when you are playing. I will have most everything here at my house removed from our router during lesson times to help us out.
- Mute yourself and even turn off your video to be less of a distraction to the lesson in progress.
- Feel free to experiment with speakers or mics on your end to be able to hear me / make your audio sharper.
- Turn ON original sound, so that Zoom will relay your instrument's sound without delay. If you need help with this setting, please ask.
You can access the Zoom link through the MMS website. Log into your user account and click on the link associated with the event.
