Asked by a double bassist who just played a shaky audition, one of the faculty members listening to this player passed along this bit of wisdom:
“Your audition was great….until you started to play the bass.”
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The crown jewel in my own shining array of jerky comments has to be one I received close to a decade ago at a mountain-nestled summer music festival by a title chair bass player of a major US orchestra. The comment directly references a news item from a few weeks prior to its delivery.
In a heavily-accented English, this teacher said to me, mid-lesson, “You know, Kathy, your understanding of physics of string playing is like…. JFK Junior flying plane. Only– for us, is not matter of life and death.”
I choose this as my favorite nasty comment not because it cut the most deeply (it actually made me laugh as it was one of the “lighter” moments in that particular lesson!) but because this pearl was obviously something envisioned and polished so carefully by this guy…. and dropped upon ME!!!!
How can a big musion be so “Schmok”?
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My Bass Prof., told me that only the good bass players are sitting- the bad one are all standing.
funny, its like no more G.Karr, N.Shehata, G.Bottesini, G. Tuneh, M. Yelinek, …
Maybe he said it because he could play only
whan he sit!
Woww,Mr.Tuneh`s Interview nave so much from life… !
Outstanding