http://rockandbach.com/articles/2007/12/29/my-job-as-a-teacher-is-to-make-you-hate-music en-us 40 Something for Everyone <p>It must be really nerve-wracking to play pieces in front of the person who wrote them, as young Vlado Perlemuter did for Ravel back in the 1920s. As a teacher, Perlemuter apparently took pains to ensure that his own students would be just as nervous when they played for him: I once attended a masterclass with one of his former students who said that when Perlemuter didn’t like something, he would slap his palm to his forehead and scream, “Non, non, non! Stupide! Stupide!” </p> <p>So much of music education seems founded on the idea that fear of humiliation is the most effective way of motivating students. Is this true? I tend to be much more productive when I feel comfortable, and I’m grateful that my teacher is unfailingly civil. She rarely says anything more pointed than “I don’t know what you’re trying to say here”; or “I don’t know about that pedal”; or “Are you sure you don’t want to be a lawyer?” I get really mad when musicians get impatient with others who are at an earlier stage of their musical life – what difference does it make when none of us is ever going to be good enough anyway? We&#8217;re all in the same intractable position, more or less, those of us who play music and want to get better.</p> <p>Jerk that he may have been, Perlemuter does have a way with Ravel. He really catches the shimmering water effect in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_de_la_nuit">Ondine</a> perfectly:</p> <p><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ez1s9JCzvQg&amp;rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ez1s9JCzvQg&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></p> Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:07:00 +0000 urn:uuid:c91b7060-8603-47b8-85ec-d65f4a1953b6 Kangmin Shin http://rockandbach.com/articles/2007/12/29/my-job-as-a-teacher-is-to-make-you-hate-music tqqO6m <a href="http://bvadiqqknkyh.com/" rel="nofollow">bvadiqqknkyh</a>, [url=http://ncjvzohpwkcu.com/]ncjvzohpwkcu[/url], [link=http://jpylwvyyotut.com/]jpylwvyyotut[/link], <a href="http://qifzdgkawzsb.com/" rel="nofollow">http://qifzdgkawzsb.com/</a> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:06:31 +0000 urn:uuid:96e322ec-2ad8-40d7-962c-6538e9801a88 http://rockandbach.com/articles/2007/12/29/my-job-as-a-teacher-is-to-make-you-hate-music#comment-1367 i've never heard ravel before - at least i wasn't aware of it. i really like that the piece. thanks.<br> <br> patience with music is key. its how anyone grows. i'm in a place where i don't have a lot of time/patience to invest in music. it is very frustrating because it is surrounding me so much at the moment and i still don't have the time to realize/learn new things.<br> <br> i want to live and breathe music. Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:23:37 +0000 urn:uuid:672d8f67-6b3d-41e4-9524-5d4b17d4d3db http://rockandbach.com/articles/2007/12/29/my-job-as-a-teacher-is-to-make-you-hate-music#comment-4