I used to go to Saint Louis Symphony concerts a lot in college. I remember that the sound of the live orchestra was so much greater than listening to a recording of the music. I think that that is because the live players, the generators of the sound, were there, right there in the concert hall under the live baton of the wonderful Leonard Slatkin, who later went to the Chicago Symphony, for those old enough to remember. Anyway, I think that it’s like that with the videos. We just don’t get the live feel when we watch a videotape of us teaching. Some of us get skittish at the idea of recording ourselves on tape and then when we see it we say we suck and it’s not true. There are so many things working against our making videos work for us that we just have to make them work for us as training devices. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be using our American ingenuity, which is the envy of all the other countries in the world. Come on, guys, throw it up.
