“With intelligent effort, performance anxiety and all of its effects can cease to be an inhibiting factor in your life.”
–The Musician’s Way, p. 151
The Fall 2024 issue of The Musician’s Way Newsletter has landed in subscribers’ inboxes.
This new edition compiles 20+ articles spanning topics such as music practice, career building, music industry news, creativity, and more.
Below, I sum up some of the content in the Fall 2024 issue:
Music Practice Tips & Insights
Two articles in this issue address bringing playfulness to practice while also instilling precision.
Another piece describes ways to infuse our interpretations with energy and forward motion. A third explores how best to deal with mistakes in practice versus in performance.
Concert Programming that Excites
Too many musicians perform the same standard repertoire, which isn’t a formula for attracting larger audiences or generating excitement about a concert.
One article in this new edition provides guidelines and resources for musicians to design innovative concert programs; another provides a model of a violinist who’s commissioning and performing fresh repertoire.
Creativity, News & Inspiration
You’ll also find articles summing up new research into why musical memories persist into old age, how our brains function when we’re most creative, and why we move to music.
Among other news articles, one profiles composers using AI as a creative tool; another spotlights an extraordinary figure in the music industry whose career trajectory provides a useful model for others.
Teaching Tools
Music educators will discover a new book for teach jazz improvisation in the music classroom as well as guidelines to incorporate hearing protection strategies in rehearsals and performances.
Other resources in this newsletter span music history and literature topics as well as materials to cultivate independent thinking in our students.
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