{"id":8990,"date":"2021-09-12T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T11:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/?page_id=8990"},"modified":"2021-09-12T13:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T11:30:39","slug":"testimonials-online-bach-seminars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/testimonials-online-bach-seminars\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials online Bach seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jingyi Tian, Hong Kong
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Seminar A<\/p>\n

Before I \u201cwalked into\u201d Prof. Rosar\u2019s webinar, I had two major concerns that make me hesitate: 1) Will I be able to follow the seminar? I am not a professional in music. I did not receive any formal training in music schools. My experience in piano and music is far from being \u201cthick\u201d enough; 2) Is this remote teaching be possible if we need to work on musical instruments? I could definitely foresee that there would be a lot of obstacles in teaching and comprehension.<\/p>\n

The first trial class cleared off my first concern. Prof. Rosar\u2019s teaching comes with clarity, friendliness, and properly designed guidance. I can see her points very clearly. And the next couple of classes cleared off my second concern. Even if this is remote teaching, which is infeasible for you to learn physically through dancing, practicing rhythm like what I read in the earlier testimonial, we still have rich information to learn Bach and step-by-step analysis of text we read. Her virtuosity in piano supports the instruction really well. When she played it, I can feel the difference more clearly and see Bach\u2019s hidden \u201ccode\u201d much better.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think I have a \u201cmusic brain\u201d before I came across this seminar. I approached music just as I approached science. Music was quite elusive to me, especially when it comes to understanding Bach. I signed up with the motivation to know \u201cthe methodology and the science\u201d of Bach. I just want to know why I am playing the pieces in certain ways.<\/p>\n

I would say this seminar gave much more than I expected. Prof. Rosar showed me that music is just as fathomable as social science, science, or any other discipline, plus more freedom to interpret it. The teaching helps you sit down and think for a while \u2013 what he was trying to say in the way he wrote the text. Only after pondering the text, the music, and the overall architecture, listening to Bach\u2019s voice and our own thoughts, can we know what to do.<\/p>\n

Please don\u2019t get me wrong. I am not saying that you will be a super master in piano or an expert in Bach pieces right after this seminar. Rather, I want to say that you will have a starting point to understand Bach and music better. If the webinar during the pandemic can be so helpful and inspiring, then I believe that Prof. Rosar can show you much more in her teaching in the future. She would show you how you can develop and nurture your own voice in music. To me, this is one of the best forms of music education that I could imagine. Without seeing and understanding the works properly, it is merely \u201cmusic training,\u201d of skills, of memories, of dexterity, you name it. But here, you will have a chance to develop your own \u201cmusic mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jingyi Tian, Hong Kong Seminar A Before I \u201cwalked into\u201d Prof. Rosar\u2019s webinar, I had two major concerns that make me hesitate: 1) Will I be able to follow the seminar? I am not a professional in music. I did not receive any formal training in music schools. My experience in piano and music is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8990","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9002,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8990\/revisions\/9002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebachproject.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}