Occupation: Fiddler Birth: 1955
There are people that appreciate the music for its musical value and there are people that will always think that it should be reserved as an express….
There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you ha….
My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to t….
Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easi….
Strength doesn't come from what you do, strength is from who you are..
I've kind of codified certain things for myself, rhythmic patterns and mechanical ways of using the bow to create layers of rhythm. What I'm trying t….
The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an expert in classical music. I don't w….