William Vacchiano © 2016 Brian A. Shook
Pedagogy Quotes
Pedagogy of William Vacchiano
“He advocated mental rehearsal. It saved your lip and you can work out phrasing, pitch, rhythm, and many other things away from the horn. He highly recommended primarily practicing transposition away from the horn. ‘For every time you practice a phrase, do it three times off the horn prior.’”
(Michael Blutman)
“He made up words to everything . . . usually funny ones. For the D-minor arpeggio fanfares in the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, he said, ‘Open the dooooooor . . . now.’ That phrase brought out the little notes in the triplet (’O-Pen The’), a well articulated downbeat (’Door’), and a definite resolution from C-sharp up to D with clear rhythm (’Now’).”
(Michael Blutman)
“Many students say they are going to take a year off and practice. This is a mistake. All he will do is improve his faults.”
(Vacchiano)
“A good teacher is one who won’t hurt you.”
(Vacchiano)
“The perfect musician is one who is able to play a passage in any key. Very often a difficult passage such as the introduction of the Pines of Rome can be made easier by changing the instrument. In order to do this you must be able to transpose well. I always advocate that every passage be played in three keys and also on three trumpets.”
(Vacchiano)
(Michael Blutman)
“He made up words to everything . . . usually funny ones. For the D-minor arpeggio fanfares in the first movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, he said, ‘Open the dooooooor . . . now.’ That phrase brought out the little notes in the triplet (’O-Pen The’), a well articulated downbeat (’Door’), and a definite resolution from C-sharp up to D with clear rhythm (’Now’).”
(Michael Blutman)
“Many students say they are going to take a year off and practice. This is a mistake. All he will do is improve his faults.”
(Vacchiano)
“A good teacher is one who won’t hurt you.”
(Vacchiano)
“The perfect musician is one who is able to play a passage in any key. Very often a difficult passage such as the introduction of the Pines of Rome can be made easier by changing the instrument. In order to do this you must be able to transpose well. I always advocate that every passage be played in three keys and also on three trumpets.”
(Vacchiano)