(Central Park, 9 a.m.)
Dear Diary:
I had not breathed
in years
but one evening
picked
a wind
Type: Posts; User: domradave
(Central Park, 9 a.m.)
Dear Diary:
I had not breathed
in years
but one evening
picked
a wind
I always thought that Dawg wrote "Mandolin King Rag" and that this was his earliest composition and his earliest recording. In Mandolin World News they printed the song and said you can hear in it...
Einstein played violin in a string quartet and it wasn't going well. The cellist said: "What's the matter Einstein? Can't you count!".
New book by Anne Dublin.
From the back cover:
"Thirteen-year old Jacob's life in 1920s Poland where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the...
From the song, "It Had Better Be Tonight".
"If you're ever gonna kiss me
It had better be tonight
While the mandolins are playing
And stars are bright"
Music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by...
"If I could play the mandolin,
Since I cannot, I'll just declare
You are beyond compare
And leave it right there."
Anybody familiar with this song or the composer?
Wallace Stevens was born in 1879 and died in 1955, the same years for Einstein. Which leads me to a joke.
Einstein was playing the violin with a string quartet and it wasn't going very well.
So the...
Another typo. "Gay" should be gray.
The title of the poem is Mandolin and Liqueurs
Mandolins and Liqueurs
La-La! The cat is in the violets
And the awnings are let down.
The cat should not be where she is
And the awnings are too brown,
Emphatically so.
If awnings were...
I was there for one performance when Andy Statman sat in. I sat next to Andy who was in the audience during the show. He played an F-5, one of Dawg's. I met Svend after the show, along with his...
Don't forget Andy Statman's Jazz Mandolin series from Homespun. It is designed for people coming from Bill Monroe and bluegrass. Andy himself may be teaching online...
Worth looking at is Kellerman's novel, A COLD HEART.
The book is dedicated to George Gruhn and John Monteleone among others.
The book features vintage mandolins and guitars.
Kellerman himself has...
If you decide to take lessons with Andy don't be embarrassed about how bad you play in front of him. He is a very understanding and sympathetic teacher. There may be someone somewhere who plays...
I was told by the great mandolin virtuosos Andy De Meo that technique comes before expression. Sometimes I think you can have too much technique. Some people can play very fast but not say very...
Got a great Flatiron 3MW mandola from Stan Jay at Mandolin Brothers. Sometimes Flatiron mandolas appear on the Mandolin Cafe classifieds. But I am still pining for a Gibson mandola.
I think someone can become a mandolin professional with Don Julin's 2 mandolin books for dummies. The book of mandolin exercises has stuff in it I have never seen in any other mandolin book. The...
Here are some teacher-student success stories.
David Grisman-Andy Statman, Jethro Burns-Don Stiernberg, Hugo D'Alton-Alison Stephens.
In all 3 cases the students did some things that surpassed...
When I lived in New York City I took mandolin lessons with Arthur Cremin of the New York Schools of Music, which at one time, had over 15 schools in the New York City area! It was said that every...
Here is a true story. I took piano lessons with a guy for two months before I found out he did not play the piano. One day I asked him to play a piece I liked and he wouldn't do it. I insisted and...
It is funny the number of good mandolin players we turned down In the Long Island Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra because they couldn't read music. They all played better than me! We offered to teach...
My first teacher, besides renting a Gibson "A" mandolin to me, started me off with the Mel Bay Mandolin Method and the Pleyel duets. I have always regretted starting this way. I think a better way...
Prima. It was made for me by the late Milton Cherin who was an engineer for Columbia Records and who won a Grammy. Milton built balalaikas and domras in his apartment until the neighbors complained...
I play in a mandolin and guitar orchestra. Also played domra in a balalaika orchestra. Never had a domra lesson.
Waiting the arrival of a great mandolin. F5. When it comes may seek out a...