Learning More About Salzedo?

[amanda-acosta]

I totaly agree with the fact that there isn’t enough information out there about Salzedo. Ive read the Dewey Owens Biography, and a couple unpublished ones by some former students.
Have you read the compilation of articles written by him and about him? I think it remains unpublished as well, but im not sure. It was compiled by Margaret Hammel.

Personally, I would like to read interviews made to pupils of Salzedo.
I think a lot of Salzedo “myths” would be rectified that way. Besides, I use to love listening to my teacher talk about him and I think she really enjoyed telling me the stories as well.
There aren’t that many students of his out there anymore, and if something isnt done, that generation might be gone sooner than we think. 🙁

[jessica-wolff]

My teacher referred to him as He with a capital H.

[tony-morosco]

I’m definitely interested. I actually just got a copy of the Dewey Owen’s biography and need to start reading that. Also my teacher occasionally relayed stories about him.

And what is fascinating is the CD set Salzedo On the Air, which are a collection of Radio programs he appeared on which include him playing (including a couple of pieces he did on piano), and being interviewed. In addition there are interviews with various people who knew him on the second CD. It really does give a better sense of who he was to hear him speak himself and talk about his music in his own voice.

[vincent-pierce]

Tony,
I love the Salzedo on the Air set! It’s fascinating to hear him play his own music. Although I have to admit, when I first heard his voice I was a bit surprised that it was so high, it made me laugh a little!

When I had a few lessons with Jeanne Chalifoux, she told me a few brief stories about Salzedo, and it was really fascinating. It seems like anyone who knew him enjoys telling stories about him.

[Sylvia]

My teacher was a Salzedo student.

[unknown-user]

Yes, I find this most true. Salzedo method has never taken off in Europe the way it has in America. I suspect this was a product of the times, Salzedo stayed in the US and did not

[jessica-wolff]

As I understand it, Salzedo was not actually Basque by birth (as Zabaleta was) but identified with the Basques because of living among them.

[Saul Davis Zlatkovski]

You will be pleased to note that the very first exercise on page 8 of the Lawrence/Salzedo Method involves the extensors in the very slow replacing of the notes.

For all the emphasis on positioning, we must not forget that it is the fingertips that must move through the strings and produce the tone, leading the rest of the finger as we close. Not keeping that in focus leads to a lot of partial motion, incomplete tones, and somewhat more tension. All the arm and upper-body work is support, and the movements are also secondary to what the fingertips do.

[Sylvia]

Yes, I think you’re right that

[unknown-user]

My teacher says that

[unknown-user]

I like his Christmas carols and that he wrote them for all his students. I’d like to know more about when he wrote them and who the students are. there is one written for Judy Laman and I think that is Judy Loman and I think that is really cool!

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