| Re: Who's your most important teacher?
My most important teacher was Barbara Butler. Once I left Eastman when I encountered a problem I'd ask myself, what would Barbara say? And the answer would pop up. I realized I had internalized what she had imparted to me and that it would stay with me forever.
I do tell my own students that the real lesson doesn't happen at "the lesson",the lesson is just me checking up on what they're doing, the real lesson is the seven days in the practice room. When we get together I'm checking and pointing them in the right direction, they have to actually go there. |