Unit 18

Victor: Let's start with some practicing exersises.

Тренировочных упражнений

Andy: I'm sick and tired of all those scales and arpeggios.

тошнит, от гамм и

арпеджио

Victor: We all do not have perfect pitch and only difficulties in reading music let alone sight -reading. And you, Andy often misses entrances.

абсолютный слух

не говоря уже о

пропускает вступления

Rosy: But your sense of rhythm, Victor, especially for anything syncopated, is virtually non-existent, and exercises won't help.

чувство ритма

синкопировано

Victor: And you , Rosy, are playing the piano out of tune.

I'm sure you are not looking at the music and playing flat.

Then you mixing up bass cleffs and treble cleffs, touching wrong notes ...

не в тон (не по тем нотам);

в ноты

"без знаков"

"цепляя" неверные ноты

Jane: Stop arguing, everybody. I think that any group should avoid any quarrels. They bring only harm. Nobody is perfect. I remember a well-known conductor. He had much trouble at music school.

His hands couldn't span a full octave on the piano, so he was not striking the keys by the the finger recommended and that, particularly on the black notes, the little finger was falling short of expectations.

He was thinking of changing instruments - going back to the woodwind class, where he was biting through oboe reeds at the sessions, or the strings department, where he was dropping the viola bow, or the percussion wing, where he was snapping drumsticks, or the brass class, where he was trying to swallow a trumpet mouthpiece. He was making such a pig's ear out of one of the most beautiful melodies Brahms ever composed.

Now it's hard to get tickets to his concerts and recitals, as a soloist or accompanying guest singers and instrumentalists.

Andy: You are right, Jane.

дотянуться

"брать" ноту нужным

пальцем;

не доставал

трости

смычок

ронять

мундштук; испохабить (make

a mess)

концерты для солиста