Nathan Cole - violin
There is method to the mastery
Well, I asked, and you gave it to me! More than 1,400 of you from around the world responded to my call for your feedback, and the results are fascinating. With this survey, I really wanted to get …
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There’s an old brainteaser about a frog stuck at the bottom of a well. The well is thirty feet deep, but the poor frog can only jump five feet high. There’s good news: he sticks to the wall at the end …
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Seconds before the chairman of the jury announced my name and program at the 1994 American String Teachers Association national competition finals, he asked me what piece I would be playing in …
Continue Reading about Out of shape and short on time? Lose the etudes, grab these excerpts →
Week by week last fall, the number of violinists still remaining in my New York Philharmonic violin audition Challenge dwindled: sixty, thirty, twenty. By the time we got to the home stretch, the last …
