As cello students, we have to learn how to hit our notes in the middle, wham, right in tune first time. Add the carefully planned shifts with their pre-shift preparations and post-shift accents [...]
Here is a section from the New Yorker, May 13 1950, a re-issue of Lillian Ross’ portrait of Ernest Hemingway when he was 50 or so, visiting New York City at a time that he was living mostly [...]