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“Tone has a living soul without form.”
When I traveled to Matsumoto, Japan, in 1986 to study with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, I packed so much music in my head and in my violin case. I was only to be there for a few weeks but I was told we would have daily lessons and I wanted to be very prepared. I was in college at the time and it was important to me to be considered an advanced student and play my hardest repertoire for “proof, so I brought three major concertos and several pieces by Kreisler and some unaccompanied Bach, just in case.
