Mark O'Connor Harms the Violin Community
Written by Laurie Niles
Published: November 3, 2014 at 11:02 PM [UTC]
For a long time, the Suzuki community has tried to ignore Mark O'Connor's efforts to discredit it, but his recent attempts to carry a blatant misinformation campaign about Shinichi Suzuki into mainstream media cross the line.
Published: November 3, 2014 at 11:02 PM [UTC]
For a long time, the Suzuki community has tried to ignore Mark O'Connor's efforts to discredit it, but his recent attempts to carry a blatant misinformation campaign about Shinichi Suzuki into mainstream media cross the line.
At this point, and very unfortunately, it's impossible to separate Mark O'Connor's efforts to create American music books for children, and the inspiring music camps that he ran in the past, from his mean-spirited misinformation campaign against Shinichi Suzuki and his personal bullying of music teachers and anyone who wishes to defend Suzuki (who is not alive to defend himself).
The broader violin community has recognized a problem evolving with Mark over the past few years, during which time Mark has been kicked off almost every violin-related website there is, including Violinist.com, The Violin Channel, Facebook Violinists and other fiddle, viola and mandolin sites, due to excessive self-promotion and bullying. His claims about Suzuki (which have been refuted many places, and are nevertheless tangential to Suzuki's accomplishments) have appeared in a one-source story in the rather unreliable British tabloid, The Telegraph. They also appear on his blog, which many people simply have stopped reading because of the anger and inaccuracy. Unfortunately, this all serves to turn people off, to Mark's work, to Suzuki, and to the violin overall. Recklessly tearing down one way of doing something doesn't mean that people will embrace another. It just tears us all down.
The vitriol is so toxic, distracting and inaccurate, I have simply turned off the channel on Mark O'Connor: unliked the Facebook page, turned off the Twitter, and completely quit going to his website, even if it's just to see what degree of unbelievable inanity he's come up with now. I've enjoyed his music in the past -- embraced it, performed it, written about it, taught it to my students. But it is not compelling enough to outweigh his personal offensiveness and blindness to the destruction he is causing not only to those he criticizes so mercilessly, but to himself.
Given my past experience, I fully anticipate that, in response to this blog, Mark will attack the level of my violin playing, the veracity of my resume, my ability to write, everything about my website, my abilities as a teacher, maybe even the color of my hair, the quirkiness of my personality, my status as a woman and more, as he has done to so many other people who have dared to say anything critical about him. I don't intend to read it. I believe his response will reveal more about him than it does about me.
The broader violin community has recognized a problem evolving with Mark over the past few years, during which time Mark has been kicked off almost every violin-related website there is, including Violinist.com, The Violin Channel, Facebook Violinists and other fiddle, viola and mandolin sites, due to excessive self-promotion and bullying. His claims about Suzuki (which have been refuted many places, and are nevertheless tangential to Suzuki's accomplishments) have appeared in a one-source story in the rather unreliable British tabloid, The Telegraph. They also appear on his blog, which many people simply have stopped reading because of the anger and inaccuracy. Unfortunately, this all serves to turn people off, to Mark's work, to Suzuki, and to the violin overall. Recklessly tearing down one way of doing something doesn't mean that people will embrace another. It just tears us all down.
The vitriol is so toxic, distracting and inaccurate, I have simply turned off the channel on Mark O'Connor: unliked the Facebook page, turned off the Twitter, and completely quit going to his website, even if it's just to see what degree of unbelievable inanity he's come up with now. I've enjoyed his music in the past -- embraced it, performed it, written about it, taught it to my students. But it is not compelling enough to outweigh his personal offensiveness and blindness to the destruction he is causing not only to those he criticizes so mercilessly, but to himself.
Given my past experience, I fully anticipate that, in response to this blog, Mark will attack the level of my violin playing, the veracity of my resume, my ability to write, everything about my website, my abilities as a teacher, maybe even the color of my hair, the quirkiness of my personality, my status as a woman and more, as he has done to so many other people who have dared to say anything critical about him. I don't intend to read it. I believe his response will reveal more about him than it does about me.
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여태 이름을 Mike로 잘못 알았음 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
엊그제 오코너라는 바욜리니스트에 대해 알게 되어 그의 페북, 유툽채널 등등 이것저것 디다 봤다.
우선 오코너의 파르티타 연주를 들으면서 내 막귀로도 이 사람의 곡 해석은 왠지 좀 비클래식 스럽다는 느낌이 들었다.
(뭐 그게 꼭 나쁘다기 보다는 그냥... 좀... 그랬다는...)
클래식 스러운 건 뭐고 비클래식 스러운 건 또 뭔지... 나도 잘 모르겠으나 어쨋든 ㅋㅋㅋ
난 바흐의 파르티타 곡들(전부인진 몰겄으나 하여튼 엄청 많이)을 음원으로 갖고 있고
가끔 듣기 때문에 귀에 익는 멜로디들은 들으면 친숙하다.
오코너의 연주를 들으면서 '오잉? 이 부분을 이렇게 처리?'하는 부분들이 쬐매 있었음 ㅋㅋㅋ
오코너의 페북에도 연주 영상이 있길래 보니까 컨추리송 같은 곡을 연주한다. 굉장히 매끄럽게 연주 잘 한다.
컨추리송 매끄럽게 연주하듯이 파르티타 연주 스타일도 딱 그렇다 ㅋㅋㅋ
파르티타를 컨추리송 연주하듯이 연주함 ㅋㅋㅋ
컨추리송 매끄럽게 연주하듯이 파르티타 연주 스타일도 딱 그렇다 ㅋㅋㅋ
파르티타를 컨추리송 연주하듯이 연주함 ㅋㅋㅋ
그래서 내가 그 사람 파르티타 연주 듣고 그런 느낌이 들었던 거다 싶었음 ㅋㅋㅋ
오코너의 파르티타 연주 영상을 보고 바로 이어서 이착 펄만의 같은 파르티타 연주 실황 영상을 봤다.
물론 사람 자체가 다르니 당연히 연주가 다르긴 한데 이번에도 비클래식스러움과 클래식스러움으로 차이가 느껴짐 ㅋㅋㅋ
그러니까 펄만과 하이페츠 연주가 분명 다른데 그 차이와는 좀 다른 종류 차이가 느껴지더라는 ㅋㅋㅋ
내가 비교 대상을 잘못 고른 건가? ㅋㅋㅋ 역시 난 비전공자라 딱 여기까지 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
오코너가 여태 페북에 올려놓은 내용들을 주욱 보다가 그 문제가 되고 있는 스즈키 비방 내용의 글들도 있더라.
자신의 교재를 잘 팔리게 하기 위해 꼭 스즈키를 공격해야 하나???
오코너란 사람은 보니까 최근에 이렇게 공격을 시작한 게 아니더만. 이미 오래 됐나보다.
글쎄... 이 사람 말이 맞을 수도 있고 스즈키가 억울한 걸 수도 있겠다. 나는 아무것도 모르니까 진실을 알 수 없음.
하지만 그렇다고 오코너 씨가 좋게 보이진 않네...
오코너의 파르티타 연주 영상을 보고 바로 이어서 이착 펄만의 같은 파르티타 연주 실황 영상을 봤다.
물론 사람 자체가 다르니 당연히 연주가 다르긴 한데 이번에도 비클래식스러움과 클래식스러움으로 차이가 느껴짐 ㅋㅋㅋ
그러니까 펄만과 하이페츠 연주가 분명 다른데 그 차이와는 좀 다른 종류 차이가 느껴지더라는 ㅋㅋㅋ
내가 비교 대상을 잘못 고른 건가? ㅋㅋㅋ 역시 난 비전공자라 딱 여기까지 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
오코너가 여태 페북에 올려놓은 내용들을 주욱 보다가 그 문제가 되고 있는 스즈키 비방 내용의 글들도 있더라.
자신의 교재를 잘 팔리게 하기 위해 꼭 스즈키를 공격해야 하나???
오코너란 사람은 보니까 최근에 이렇게 공격을 시작한 게 아니더만. 이미 오래 됐나보다.
글쎄... 이 사람 말이 맞을 수도 있고 스즈키가 억울한 걸 수도 있겠다. 나는 아무것도 모르니까 진실을 알 수 없음.
하지만 그렇다고 오코너 씨가 좋게 보이진 않네...
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