source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:20:19 -0700 Subject: Re: Pablo Casals and "Expressive Intonation" From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) Johnny Reinhard's quote from Pablo Casals reminds me of what Jascha Heifetz said once (which I hope I recall correctly). When playing double stop octaves, he claimed that playing them absolutely perfectly in tune caused the upper note to "disappear." He therefore played his octave double stops slightly out of tune, which he said was more pleasing to the ear. Bill ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^ ^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^ ^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^ ^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)607-7600 (fax) ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:45 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA05074; Mon, 5 May 1997 19:45:17 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA05102 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id KAA06996; Mon, 5 May 1997 10:42:43 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:42:43 -0700 Message-Id: <970505133638_574078534@emout08.mail.aol.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu