“Playing Bartok for Perlman” from The Many Stories of Bill Fitzpatrick. (Video no.6/54)
Channel: Bill Fitzpatrick's Videos
Date: 05/11/2021

Video Transcription …
Walking down the street in Aspen I ran into Perlman. He asked me what I was working on, and I said Bartok. He asked if I would like to play it for him, and I said "Sure!" So we went up to his apartment and I started playing for him. The first thing he said was that I sounded like link sausages... “wa-wa-wa-wa-wa,". He then said, “I've never seen anyone like you before.” I was so proud. "Usually when you ask someone to do something, he said,  in the right hand, it affects what they do in the left hand. With you, it doesn't seem to matter!” I was so deflated. So we worked on this and I sounded better. I went home and practiced but after a while it was all gone! I guess learning and retaining is not just mindlessly doing what is said.