Comments on 'Emerson String Quartet: Mendelssohn---The Octet (PART 1)'

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alsantu1 (November 10th, 2009 @ 9:40 pm)
Thanks for letting us in the process of recording.
Pablissimo2001 (July 1st, 2009 @ 7:43 am)
Incredible.
kitkatkelly88 (June 24th, 2009 @ 3:57 pm)
I'm a woman and a musician and I think you're full of crap.
xenogar (June 16th, 2009 @ 1:35 am)
I've actually thought about doing a recording like this where it is just me playing a quartet or something. It's hard finding people that are motivated and talented enough to do a quartet (at least where I am).
jsbad1 (April 12th, 2009 @ 8:12 am)
My friend, referring to artistic skills, you're all wet. I offer irrefutable proof: Jessye Norman. Never has her art been surpassed. There are many many other examples.
jsbad1 (April 12th, 2009 @ 8:09 am)
Very interesting documentary! Of course modern instruments record well, maybe as well as old Italians. But new ones don't satisfy us players the same way, do they? Sam can't make a 300 year old instrument. Nor can anyone else. But modern instruments are affordable and quite wonderful for those of us who aren't lucky enough to play a Strad or Guad. Thanks for posting this!
Kreislerfan (March 13th, 2009 @ 2:56 pm)
because, frankly, women suck.
openmindedtree (March 5th, 2009 @ 6:16 am)
Wow, so you can name...what....a handful of women? Great. That totally evens everything out. Not to mention the past suffering that almost every single woman had to go through back in classical music's origins (Europe between 12th - 19th century). Yea, go ahead and support the supposedly "fact" that things are so much better now. How about you take a women studies class before making claims you cannot support. But hey, believe what you want, I don't care...that's your crazy belief, not mine. =)
Shoebappa1 (March 5th, 2009 @ 4:45 am)
What in the world are you babbling about??? Have you looked at ANY major quartets other than Emerson in the last 65 years? I can name 6 major international ranked Quartets with at least one woman, several are entirely women. I have also had more women teachers in my 15 years of playing than men, and IMO their better teachers. Please stop flooding interesting videos with the mindless banter I keep seeing and do more research before you throw crazy thoughts out of your head.
ssballs (February 24th, 2009 @ 4:20 am)
Fascinating,thank you for posting.
openmindedtree (February 20th, 2009 @ 8:07 am)
The message to my question that I wanted people, like you, to think about is why there isn't many women in classical music in the first place. Just think about it.
hutonx14 (February 20th, 2009 @ 4:47 am)
They didn't hire anybody... the Emerson String Quartet doesn't have any women in it, and their producer is a guy, and the studio they were working at didn't have any femal employees. Why on earth would they hire a woman to a studio that already has full time employees for just a single recording?

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