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Title: Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story by John Caldwell Holt ISBN: 0-201-56763-6 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspirational Read
Comment: How difficult is it to attempt something very imposing at later years? Holt writes of this experience of taking up the cello at fifty and his resultant joys and journey.
A lifelong student, Holt is his own person. Learning from himself and his world, and everything in them that will help him achieve. He makes good points about fear and disappointment building barriers to improvement. The battle between competing voices of critique and edification, of between differing interests, e.g. Holt's musician vs. writer.
All this is comforting and inspiring for the adult learner in each of us. Attempting to pick up the oboe in my fifties, having abandoned it at 14, understand much of what Holt communicates so well. However, his issues of tuning and fret memory are replaced for the double reedist by the ever trying reed dilemma.
I did not profit from the lengthy recall of his music past.
This touching and useful sharing of music growth will stimulate and inspire aspiring musicians of all levels. Learning to be a learner is a wonderful thematic gift of this work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rebel Educator: Indefatigable Student
Comment: John Caldwell Holt, like Ivan Illych, was a long-time rebel educator who felt that the general public education system could sometimes do more harm than good when it comes to instilling in children a life-long love for learning. But in this particular book, Holt is sending a message to those in their golden years who think they've passed the prime of learning. Taking up the cello at an advanced age, then putting it down due to work and travel pressures, then taking it up again into his 50s and beyond, Holt wants to show by example that getting older doesn't mean you can't pursue your dreams.
Like Wayne Booth's book on the love of amateur cello playing, Holt's book shows how the pursuit of amateur cello playing is available to almost anyone with the drive to put in the requisite practice hours and gather with likeminded people to practice their craft.
If you put down your childhood instrument decades ago, or never picked one up in the first place, Holt can inspire you through his example to consider taking it up.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for adults wishing they could play .
Comment: If you've regret giving up violin lessons back in sixth grade, think "if only I had stuck with it" when you hear Yo Yo Ma play, and you think fondly of the neglected instrument collecting dust in the attic, this book may be for you, providing a jump start to get you back into music. Holt is passionate about his cello, about music, about improving. He inspires courage -- the courage to start something new and work through the frustrations of being a older beginner (whose skills are surpassed by a Suzuki-trained child, no doubt). Holt dives in to his instrument with a seriousness and commitment that I doubt most adult learners would have (hours of practice, playing in community orchestras) -- but it's an inspiring read, nonetheless.
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Title: Art of Cello Playing by Louis Potter ISBN: 0874870712 Publisher: Warner Brothers / Summy-Birchard Publications Pub. Date: June, 1980 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Cello Technique: Principles and Forms of Movement by Gerhard Mantel, Barbara Haimberger Thiem, Thiem Barbara Haimberger, Janos Starker ISBN: 0253210054 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Tipbook - Cello : The Best Guide to Your Instrument by Hugo Pinksterboer ISBN: 9076192472 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: New Directions in Cello Playing by Victor Sazer ISBN: 0944810039 Publisher: Of Note Pub. Date: 07 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Just Play Naturally by Vivien Mackie, Joe Armstrong ISBN: 0971700400 Publisher: Duende Editions Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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