Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] RETROSPECT 116
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:20:43 -0700
References: <CABAowZ6W2rSscH3NxNjUif2ZdQJvuq7xG1a4EXzUeGeF-d5DkA@mail.gmail.com>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Antonio_de_Jes?s_Alvarado

On 2020-04-21 7:32 pm, Bill Clough via LUG wrote:
> In 1980, on a cultural exchange assignment to Guatemala, I was paired
> one evening with the first-chair cellist of the Guatamala City, Mr. 
> Manuel
> Alvarado. In high school, I held first chair cello in the orchestra, 
> but I
> never learned how to read music. My mother was a trained concert 
> pianist,
> so I had her play the music and then I played it mostly by ear. At the
> start of my senior year, I was hit with a sight-reading challenge and I
> went from first to fourth chair in 20 minutes. I looked at the class
> schedule and discovered the same time period for orchestra was a 
> journalism
> class. The rest is history. I told Mr. Alvarado the story. After 
> dinner, he
> asked me to play his cello. It had been 21 years since I had held a 
> cello.
> It took me 15 minutes just to get the fingering for scales. ?You have 
> music
> in your soul,? he said. ?Let me show you something.? He got a 
> flashlight
> and illuminated the inside. I had been playing scales on a 
> Stradivarius.


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