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Samuel Hazo Clinic (2006)

General Considerations

  • “Warming up the paper” The difference is whether you know something about the music before you play it or not.
  • “Sing your lives through your instrument.”
  • While describing how there are no wrong answers when dealing with interpretation: “2 plus 2 can equal 5 in music…if you make a pretty enough 5.”
  • “When you have a soft note, go for the note, not the dynamic.”
  • “People will never hear a missed dynamic, but they’ll hear a missed note.”
  • “When dynamics go down, effort must go up.”
  • “Less sound = more intensity”
  • “It’s easier to become great than to maintain greatness.”