The fact is; you will teach.from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp; Dean Emeritus; The Julliard School.Whether serving on the faculty at a university; maintaining a class of private students; or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series; virtually all musicians will teach during their careers. From the Stage to the Studio speaks directly to the performing musician; highlighting the significant advantages of becoming distinguished both as a performer and a pedagogue. Drawing on over sixty years of combined experience; authors Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott provide the guidance and information necessary for any musician to translate his or her individual approach into productive and rewarding teacher-student interactions. Premised on the synergistic relationship between teaching and performing; this book provides a structure for clarifying the essential elements of musical artistry; and connects them to such tangible situations as setting up a studio; teaching a master class; interviewing for a job; judging competitions; and recruiting students. From the Stage to the Studio serves as an essential resource for university studio faculty; music pedagogy teachers; college music majors; and professionals looking to add effective teaching to their artistic repertoire.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. UnevenBy A CustomerWhile one or two stories are on target. I wasnt thrilled with the overall collection. To be sure. DAurevilly is quite successful in creating suspense and engendering interest. The bulk of the stories. however. dont so much end as stop. They are disconcertingly anti-climactic; indeed. impotent.While theres a lot worse to read out there. I cant wholeheartedly recommend "Les Diaboliques." If youre interested in decadent literature of the first water. I strongly suggest Huysmans "La-Bas."0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. keeps several mistresses at the same time like seven strings of his lyreBy Glenn RussellJules Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly (1808 ndash; 1889). romantic with the sensibility of a decadent . self-styled dandy. teller of risqueacute; novels and short stories. shocked readers and infuriated the authorizes with the publication of Les Diaboliques. But there is much more to this captivating novel with its sumptuous. elegant language. well-crafted metaphors and highly visual and sensual imagery than simply stock value. Below are a number of themes common to these stories:Story within a storyThe first-person narrator tells us as readers how one evening years ago while returning from a hunting trip he shared a carriage with a rotund dandy he calls Vicomte de Brassard. The carriage made a stop in a small provincial town for repair. Gazing up at an upper-story window of one of the townrsquo;s large buildings. a crimson certain caught the narratorrsquo;s attention; he points out the captivating tint of the curtain to his riding companion. Ah. such are the twists of fate. since. as it turns out. that exact room with the crimson curtain was a dramatic marker for de Brassardrsquo;s life -- it all happened back in the day when he was but a 17 year old lieutenant. And dandy de Brassard tells the tale.Storytelling with a hookTherersquo;s a point. usually about half way through. when something unexpected happens to propel the story into overdrive. And what variety of event are we alluding to here? Why. of course. as if lighting a fuse to a stick of dynamite. a woman ignites a manrsquo;s passion: BOOM! Now wersquo;re reading a Barbey-drsquo;Aurevilly-style spellbinding page-turner.DandyismFor Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly. a dandy is not only a man scrupulously devoted to style. neatness and fashion but. as he describes Vicomte de Brassard. a dandy has a seductive beauty which seduce not only woman but circumstances themselves: has a careless disdain and repugnance of discipline: keeps several mistresses at the same time like seven strings of his lyre; drinks like a Pole; jests about his own immorality; belongs to his own times and transcends his times; and. lastly. above all else. scorns all emotion as being beneath him.Conversation as a cultural highpointIn all six of these Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly tales. the character raise conversation to an art form ndash; probing inquiry; genteel exchange; elaborate. detailed storytelling with all the necessary color and nuance to convey a vivid. sensual picture; and. above all. a deep respect for the speaker. permitting onersquo;s interlocutor time and space ndash; none of those spurious interruptions commonplace in our current world: cutting a speaker off mid-sentence. answering cell-phones. texting. checking emails. looking at onersquo;s watch (the ultimate insult). Indeed. engaging in conversation as a cultivated skill. a consummate refinement. similar to playing baroque music or painting in oils.Woman as the real power player19th century France: Victorian. bourgeois. patriarchal. or. in other words. a male-centered. conservative. reason-dominated society. But the dirty little secret for the upholders of Victorian patriarchy is our all-too-human life is fueled by passion and emotion. most particularly sexual emotion ndash; sexual attraction. sexual arousal and. of course. erotic love. The power of each of these Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly tales lies in the fact a female instigates or initiates the key action. Talk about turning those Victorian values upside down and shaking! No wonder the authorities hated Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly and banned his 1874 novel ndash; Les Diaboliques also gave the French reading public one of its first tastes of what came to be known as the Decadent Movement. with its smashing to bits the connection and linking of virtue/reward. vice/punishment. good morals/happiness and bad morals/unhappiness. as in Happiness in Crime. a tale of two adulterers and murderers who live happily ever after.For a more specific rasa. letrsquo;s look at one of the tales. In The Greatest Love of Don Juan. we read of a Don Juan-like lover. Comte de Ravila. dining with twelve of his previous romantic conquests. Barbey drsquo;Aurevilly describes the physical strength and mature sensuality of these sumptuous lovers: ldquo;Full curves and ample proportions. dazzling bosoms. beating in majestic swells above liberally cut bodices . . . ldquo; And then he writes of the sheer psychic power of these ladies as the evening progresses: ldquo;They felt a new and mysterious power in their innermost being of which. until then. they had never suspected the existence. The joy of this discovery. the sensation of a tripled life force. the physical incitements. so stimulating to highly strung temperaments. the sparkling lights. the penetrating odor of so many flowers swooning in an atmosphere overheated with the emanations of all these lovely bodies. the sting of heady wines. all acted together.rdquo;Then. one woman demands our Don Juan tell the story of the greatest love of his life. If effect. he is being asked to choose one of his lovers amongst the present company. Comte de Ravila tells his story but. turns out. the story is not at all what these ladies expected.My take is Ravila did the exactly the right thing. True. his story was not a tale of wild. heart-stopping. hot-blooded passion ndash; he probably had twelve equally erotic and fantastically romantic stories to tell on that subject. one for each lady present. however his story was of a completely different cast but a story that had. from his perspective. a happy ending ndash; he escaped from the banquet with the real prize: his life.What an impossible question to ask a man: to choose one woman amongst twelve surrounding him. If he did. he most likely would have been torn to shreds by eleven Dionysian-frenzied former lovers. Thatrsquo;s the way to think on your feet and save your skin. Ravila!11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. "Happiness has no story." - Jules Barbey.By John McCormackAny fan of Baudelaire. Huysmans. or decadent fiction in general needs to read this book. When published. Les Diaboliques was considered so vile and disturbing that police actually seized it for offense to public morality. Even today. with its obsessive excursions into crime. sexual devience. and its dark. satanic undertones (Barbey was an eccentric catholic). it still retains a shocking. raw depravity. The devils in the novel are all female ; useing their dominating. almost ravenous sexuality they manipulate and overpower men. even abuse them. They take life and love on their own terms. sometimes with savage. brutal violence. The dark under-world of eroticism and sex are explored and revealed in a slightly deranged light. Often times the stories seem to have some kind of mysterious. perverse moral. but it is so twisted the reader is never sure. In fact. even the characters motivations are never fully revealed ; their is horror. but not always directly. it pervades all around like some putrid. foul-smelling perfume. Terror is everywhere. hidden in the shadows of life. The narative itself adds to the overall creepy atmosphere. full of twists. detours. digressions. A classic of evil literature. this book demands to be ghoulishly savoured.
