Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bellis an American violinist and conductor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth9 December 1967
CityBloomington, IN
CountryUnited States of America
adding bigger chamber directing music
I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.
basis education music
I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.
age brought concert grew music musical played playing violin
I grew up in a musical environment. My parents played music and had it playing on the radio. They brought me to a concert at the age of 5, the same age I started violin lessons.
itunes legally music spent
Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.
french loved music student teacher
My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.
began besides early finds learning music time
Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes.
decides express ideal incredible kids learn music school teaching tool
Music is such an incredible tool for kids in general. They learn discipline; they learn how to express themselves. You learn math. You learn language. It's the ideal teaching tool, and that's why it's mind-boggling when any school superintendent decides that music is something we can kind of do without.
feeling music
Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.
maybe music people teaches work
Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.
became certainly common emphasized episcopal grew household mixed music priest sort spiritual
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.
love music
I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.
conductor liked music orchestra
The orchestra confides in me about their music director or their conductor, and I've never seen a conductor that's been liked by everyone.
categorize high mix music shallow showy
We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.
classical music
It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.