Posted by Dennis Morris on July 12, 1999 at 08:57:16:
In Reply to: Sound before anything..... posted by Art on July 10, 1999 at 01:06:14:
I think that, as musicians, we have to be concerned with every aspect of performing on our instrument. It's all "important" -- sound (by which I mean tone production), intonation, facility, interpretation, and so on.
But I'd like to pass along something one of my teachers told me a long time ago: "If you don't sound good when you play the long notes, you won't be around long enough to show them what you can do when you play the short notes".