Comments on: Concertmaster https://carolacraig.com/concertmaster/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carol Craig https://carolacraig.com/concertmaster/#comment-264 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:27:01 +0000 http://carolacraig.com/?p=632#comment-264 In reply to Mark Shellans.

Mark – Thank you so very much! Your dad was incredibly special to us. It was my pleasure and privilege to be able to honor him in this way!

]]> By: Mark Shellans https://carolacraig.com/concertmaster/#comment-263 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:19:30 +0000 http://carolacraig.com/?p=632#comment-263 Oh Carol! Thank you so much for your memories of my dad. You captured his spirit so well it brought tears to my eyes. I was very lucky to have been raised by such wonderful parents and realize it more with every passing year. As a teacher, my dad had the unique ability to understand exactly what it was that his student (or child) *didn’t* understand, and communicate it it to us in a way that we could. I am sure that you also had the experience of playing the notes of a passage, but not really understanding them. Dad would stop us and play, or even sing them, emphasizing exactly the flow that we had failed to grasp before.
One more note about his life: after my mom died, dad struck up a correspondence with Amnon Ben Tor, Director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority. That culminated with my dad’s invited participation in two archaeological digs in the Northern Galilee … in his late 80’s, mind you.
Thanks again Carol,
Mark

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