Brilliant musical teaching

[timayer]

I stumbled on this Youtube channel two nights ago, and I can't stop watching these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfqECFejaN0" target="_blank

Maestro Zander goes into a level of musicality and musical honesty that you don't see very often. His basic thesis throughout - of taking yourself out of the music and being a conduit for what the composer wrote - is very simple, and something we all think that we do. But he demonstrates the stark difference between thinking that we do that and actually doing it. I don't really have anything else to say other than we should all strive for this in everything we play and teach.

[Ace]

Thanks for that. A great masterclass!

Ace

[Rick F]

I missed that one. Thanks for sharing Tim. Maestro Zander is a genius. A wonderful musician, excellent teacher and entertainer. The first time I watched one of his videos was on a Ted Talk about ten years ago. Here's a link to that one if interested:

The Transformative Power of Classical Music:

[windshieldbug]

It is interesting to hear him apply his principals to a brass player

Tchaikovsky - Horn Solo from the 5th Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYdLi3dvXYY

[timayer]

And the trumpet part to Mahler 5

https://youtu.be/gPzDh2ypK1U" target="_blank" target="_blank

The point to me is that there is a level we can demand beyond simply "sounding good." And so many times once something "sounds good" we call it done. In every one of these lessons, the player sounds brilliant initially and is taught to sound better.

But as is the case so many times, once the genius clues us into his thinking, it sounds so obvious. But it takes the genius to get there in the first place.