Mark O’Connor gets full treatment from The New Yorker
Category: Bluegrass News
By Travis Tackett
September 10, 2009
Mark O'Connor from video on the NewYorker.com
Fiddler turned classical violinist Mark O’Connor continues to rise high above his Texas fiddling and bluegrass roots. But not to the point he’s abandoning them.
O’Connor is the subject of major attention this week in the new edition of The New Yorker magazine, including a special video feature and a “The Talk Of TheTown” profile in the print edition of magazine.
The article is entitled: “Making It New Dept. – Cabbage.” Writer Nick Paumgarten introduces readers to O’Connor’s music through his own instruments hanging on his NYC apartment wall that he played during his career.
The story also covers O’Connor’s famed String Camps and the soon-to-be-released O’Connor Violin Method. The method’s first tune is the old fiddle standard, “Boil ‘em Cabbage Down.”
The magazine calls O’Connor’s fiddle method “an American-grown rival to the Suzuki method,” which has been a standard learning system for young violinists for the past few decades.
You can also watch O’Connor discuss his Violin Method on NewYorker.com
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