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More Things I Said To My Students In Class Today

By michael lee ⋅ December 10, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

part 2 in a 586 part series
Very few people are allowed to define their music careers narrowly. People who make a living in this field have to be good at a lot of things, and you don’t know yet what those things are. We rarely get to define ourselves, we rarely get to say, “I [...]

String We Now Of Christmas

By michael lee ⋅ January 3, 2008 ⋅ 21 comments

I love writing for strings. Looooooove it. One of my favorite things to do. I love hearing the meshing tones in my head, transposing them to paper, I love closing my eyes and physically mimicking the execution of the passages, to get a feel for bowings and fingerings, checking for potential errors or hidden difficulties [...]

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