Things Just Keep Getting Better!

Announcing the opening of my new and improved Gallery! You can visit the gallery at any time by simply clicking the so-named link on the bar at the top of this page. Currently, the displays available for your viewing pleasure include photos from the November Student Recital, the July CMI Recital, and the selected examples [...]


The Long-Awaited Bowhold Comparison

Finally, the photos of a few of history’s violin Greats and their bow holds are here!
In general, there have been two schools of thought concerning the bow hold: the Russian bow hold, and the Franco-Belgian bow hold (although, there is what can be considered either a third school or a variation on the Franco-Belgian; this [...]


Thought for the Day

“The trouble with real life is that there’s no danger music.”
–Jim Carrey from “The Cable Guy”
Ain’t it the truth?


Music: The Bread of Geniuses

Pianist Arthur Schnabel and physicist Albert Einstein, who was a fairly good violinist, were playing a Mozart sonata. Einstein became hopelessly lost at one point. When they stopped, Schnabel asked, “Albert, can’t you count?”
(as posted by Tom Holzman on Violinist.com, March 12, 2005.)


Thought for the Day

“Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents [...]