{"id":28385,"date":"2015-05-13T10:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T14:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=28385"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:10:16","slug":"coffee-break-itzhak-perlman-tells-hilarious-story-about-how-to-play-staccato-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/05\/13\/coffee-break-itzhak-perlman-tells-hilarious-story-about-how-to-play-staccato-video\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Itzhak Perlman Tells Hilarious Story About How to Play Staccato (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1w5KdUxteg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Today\u00a0we unearthed a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L1w5KdUxteg\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> video of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itzhakperlman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Itzhak Perlman<\/a> giving a masterclass in 1978, with a very young and long-haired\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cholianglin.com\/\">Cho-Liang Lin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While observing Lin&#8217;s formidable\u00a0technique performing a section from\u00a0Antonio Bazzini&#8217;s &#8220;<span class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"The Dance of the Goblins (La Ronde des Lutins), Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25\">The Dance of the Goblins&#8221;, Perlman is left in awe.\u00a0He asks Lin how he plays\u00a0the &#8220;Staccato bit&#8221;. He stiffens the arm and hopes for the best, Lin replies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"The Dance of the Goblins (La Ronde des Lutins), Scherzo fantastique, Op. 25\">Perlman then goes into a hilarious story about how violinist\u00a0<\/span>Josef Gingold learned how to play staccato by\u00a0Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe, who essentially scared him half to death. (Eug\u00e8ne Ysa\u00ffe was an\u00a0imposing musician not only for his great technique, but for his great physical\u00a0height.)<\/p>\n<p>Just watch the video, it&#8217;s well worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? 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After observing his technique, Perlman tells a hilarious story about how to play staccato&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":28390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,4932,68],"tags":[5436,1649,5437],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/Perlman-staccato.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-7nP","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28385"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28400,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385\/revisions\/28400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28385"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}