After practicing for three or four weeks from the first day I touched my violin in twenty years it became abundantly clear that I needed some professional help.   It took me another couple weeks at least to get the nerve up to ask our orchestra teacher if she would be willing to give me a few lessons.  I was so nervous when asking, “do you think you could give me some lessons.”  Why would anybody want to teach an adult with little hope of achieving anything?  Wouldn’t it just be …

Not only will Yo-Yo Ma be featured in a Hyundai commercial for the XLIII Super Bowl but fans will be able to visit Hyundai’s web site and edit the video for the ad.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/autoNews/idUKTRE5050GA20090106

Galamian’s Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching is a classic of violin pedagogy.  Often considered oe of the most influential teachers of the twentieth century teaching great violinists such as Perlman and Zuckerman Galamian developed his principles and methods which are masterfully detailed in this book penned by Elizabeth Green at Galamian’s approval.

The film by Pere Portabella is “an approach to music and the trades and subjects that surround it through Bach’s works.” It was presented at the 64th Venice International Film Festival 2007. A series of beautiful vignettes which explores the relationship between image and music where the music is the subject of the narrative itself.

I am thirty-six years old and have been playing the violin again for almost two years. In starting on this venture it has come to my attention that there are scores of adult beginners out there who have launched into the unsure waters of learning to play the violin. It is often an exercise in frustration and difficulty but it has also awakened a new passion for the music of the violin and reawakened a passion for music I have always had.