UTNE Reader - Cure Ignorance; writes a big feature and Q&A with Mark OConnor on his new release out tomorrow! They also exclusively premiere a tune from the new MOC4 CD! Can you give a brief recap of your experience as a child prodigy and how you developed as a musician growing up? How did your perspective of the violin and string music evolve? I was able to learn about what I refer to as the four pillars of string playing all by the time I was a mid teenager: Folk Fiddling, Classical, Jazz, and World Music. I was astonished when I found out there was almost no string player in the U.S., or in the world for that matter with those wonderful combinations of experiences. I always thought it was a strength to have that kind of background in learning music and I wanted to share the gift I had with the world of string students. I realized that it was simply what the American School should be all about. No one had ever come up with what the American School of String Playing should be. And so I did. Our strength in America has been our diversity and as it should be here with string music education. Read more: utne/arts/song-premiere-mark-oconnor.aspx#ixzz34AAqKXUM utne/arts/song-premiere-mark-oconnor.aspx#axzz349Ywe7pL
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:17:34 +0000
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