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fortheloveofcello:

opus72:

mozart died today in 1791, anyway here’s a reminder to not overwork yourself in the music world and like…sleep every now and then

not that we’ll all get a wild fever and legends of some italian guy poisoning us, but i feel like mozart’s young exhaustion-fueled death is a pretty cautionary tale about the dangers of not taking a damn break

anyway

No breaks, we die like Mozart.


tchaikovsky-official:

felixmendelssohn-official:

tchaikovsky-official:

bosendorfer-official:

tempo–tantrums:

rachmaninov or rachmaninoff??

tchaikovsky or tschaikowsky?

who knows

Richard Taruskin, in the Oxford History of Western Music, writes “Chaikovsky,” something which I have never seen repeated elsewhere. It is the only thing that he has written in the OHoWM that I immediately reject without looking for further evidence to disprove its existence.
@tchaikovsky-official
what do you think?

It’s spelt Чайкoвский so you can do whatever you want with it in English.

Chai cow ski

Don’t do that




bachyou:

marching-ahn:

saxysopralto:

saxysopralto:

They just installed this monster of a vending machine in the music hall.

But not a normal people vending machine with Oreos and Gatorade and shit. It’s stocked with reeds and rosin???

what

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if you didn’t believe me here’s pictures

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This is beautiful.

Best idea.










Asked by heraldofanclraste:

Hi I'm a bass player and I literally have the struggle of a lifetime playing vibrato :/. Any advice?

gottabeastringplayer:

Bass players? I don’t want to give unwarranted and unqualified advice here.

i’m not a bass player, but i am taking low string tech, and i have a good teacher.

the technique is basically the same as on upper strings— you come from behind the note (with out passing it!) and move your forearm and hand in unison (keeping good posture), starting slow with say, measured eighth notes, then gradually decreasing to sixteenths, thirty seconds, etc., until you have vibrato. similar to the way little kids tend to figure out the jaws theme. (da dun… da dun.. da dun da dun… dadun dadun……dadundadundadundaun…!)

my teacher likes to call this “the wah-wahs” after the sound it makes in the beginning.

[that said, the way i learned vibrato was by watching lots and lots of videos of my favorite performers and analyzing what they did, then practicing what i saw in front of a mirror.
i also observed my peers in this manner. then one summer i decided to play cello and everything made so much more sense— probably because they play with gravity. i can now pull a pretty decent vibrato out of basically any stringed instrument.]