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Old Oaken Bucket stays in one place this year
12/10/20 8:23 PM
The sports phrase traveling trophy is cool. No trophy has more frequent flyer miles in its account than the Stanley Cup. The Old Oaken Bucket has its charm, however.
Even if its miles are on the ground and it never leaves Indiana highways connecting Indiana University in Bloomington and Purdue University in West Lafayette. Where else would it go?
This year it is going nowhere. Earlier this week, IU and Purdue announced the cancellation of Saturday’s football game in Bloomington because of the coronavirus.
For the time being, this is the Old Oaken Empty Bucket. Major bummer.
Bonnie Hampton: This might not be called a ‘powerful’ exercise: it is simply a way of playing scales and arpeggios. Attention should be on hands and arms feeling very relaxed, and intonation being clear and true. The weight is in only one finger at a time, with the rest of the hand relaxed. The bow is making good, free contact with the string, producing an open, vibrant tone. Just checking that one is feeling one’s flexibility and hearing the quality of sound brings one’s attention to working ‘with’ the instrument.
Boris Kuschnir: Many students play ricochet by throwing the bow on the string so that they have no control over the sound of every note and can only play a very short ricochet. My advice is to move only the wrist with a very quick kick downwards – not with the fingers, or the elbow. This exercise immediately makes the ricochet longer and improves the quality of each note.