By Hanno Strydom Strydom.Hanno@MacPhail.org
To mark the recent transition from school year to summer session, I decided to frame this year’s summer lessons for all of my students around the broad subject of bow technique. As a focal point, I’m using video material recorded in 1978 by the legendary…
by Hanno Strydom Strydom.Hanno@MacPhail.org
Last week one of my students emailed me to say that she'd like to do a youth orchestra audition in June. This year the audition requirements include a big cello excerpt from Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. Realizing that the prep time is relatively short, I …
In a previous post I wrote about the Online Cello Resource Center (CelloBello.com) established by NEC cello professor, Paul Katz, featuring excellent resources for cellists including high quality tutorial videos. Today I want to share a couple of ot…
From Planet Waves (d'Addario), TuneUp is a fantastic basic tuner app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It's highly sensitive, and has no difficulty registering low frequencies (much appreciated by my cello students who often struggle with tuners for th…