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Thinking and Feeling While Performing

Thinking and Feeling While Performing

by Gerald Klickstein | Oct 26, 2022 | creative process, music performance, performance anxiety, The Musician's Way

“Give yourself over to the emotion of the music while you also lead the music, directing your execution and the emotional flow.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 187 Aspiring musicians work hard to develop technical and interpretive skills, which are the most obvious abilities...
Motivations and Barriers to Arts Attendance

Motivations and Barriers to Arts Attendance

by Gerald Klickstein | Aug 31, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, music careers, music performance

“Among adults who participated – as creators or performers – in performing arts activities, the majority (62 percent) did so to spend time with family and friends.” –National Endowment for the Arts “U.S. Patterns of Arts Participation,” p. 3...
New-Generation Classical and Jazz Concerts

New-Generation Classical and Jazz Concerts

by Gerald Klickstein | Jun 22, 2022 | creativity, Entrepreneurship, music careers, music performance

“The spontaneity and collective energy catch fire to a degree that some performances leave indelible memories.”–The Musician’s Way, p. 154 During much of the twentieth century, before the advent of high-tech home entertainment, large numbers of people attended...
Let’s Put Music Scales in their Place

Let’s Put Music Scales in their Place

by Gerald Klickstein | Feb 3, 2022 | music education, music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“I took lessons as a kid, but it was mostly just practicing scales, and it seemed more like homework… I gave piano lessons three attempts – the first time when I was a kid… Then, when I was sixteen… but it was still the same scales…...
The Musician’s Way for Studio Classes

The Musician’s Way for Studio Classes

by Gerald Klickstein | Sep 28, 2020 | music education, Music Higher Education, music performance, music practice, performance anxiety, The Musician's Way

“All musicians can sift through their performance issues and come out the better for it – if they choose to do the work.” The Musician’s Way, p. 146 For music students to excel as performers, they need abundant opportunities to rehearse performance skills. And...
The Key Mental Skill of Expert Musicians

The Key Mental Skill of Expert Musicians

by Gerald Klickstein | Aug 29, 2020 | memorization, music performance, music practice, The Musician's Way

“When I sit in Paris in a café, surrounded by people, I don’t sit casually – I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.” —Arthur Rubinstein, pianist The Musician’s Way, p. 34 Like Arthur Rubinstein, countless expert musicians use...
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