by Gerald Klickstein | Dec 18, 2018 | music performance, performance anxiety
“Confident performance is not a fluke, but the product of imaginative and consistent synthesis of technical and emotional work.” -Frank R. Wilson The Musician’s Way, p. 146 Musicians who grapple with performance nerves typically hear plenty of clichéd... 
by Gerald Klickstein | Nov 14, 2018 | injury prevention, music performance, music practice
“Three qualities are essential in a professional musician… the first is good health and the other two are the same.” Mark Hambourg, pianist -The Musician’s Way, p. 241 Whether we make music as professionals, students or amateurs, we strive to create transcendent... 
by Gerald Klickstein | Sep 26, 2018 | music performance, music practice
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” -The Musician’s Way, p. 196 In Chapter 10 of The Musician’s Way, I emphasize that musicians should view errors not as shameful failures but as neutral information. Having such a healthy... 
by Gerald Klickstein | Aug 14, 2018 | injury prevention, music performance, music practice
“Advantageous postures have an active quality; they’re always subtly in motion.” -The Musician’s Way, p. 251 In his book, On Piano Playing, Gyorgy Sandor identifies two features of beneficial postures: stability and mobility. That is, they support the weight of... 
by Gerald Klickstein | Jun 17, 2018 | music performance, music practice, performance anxiety
“It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.” -Ornette Coleman, saxophonist & composer The Musician’s Way, p. 190 In the discovery phase of practice, all of us make errors as we try out interpretive and technical... 
by Gerald Klickstein | Jun 6, 2018 | music performance, music practice
“Only after I have become familiar with the style and character of the work can I start shaping an interpretation.” —Yo-Yo Ma The Musician’s Way, p. 24 On a primary level, musical interpretation conveys fluctuations in emotional intensity. And one of the best ways to...
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