Rethinking the concert
Diane Wild (dwild@slonet.org)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
Robin, thanks so much for the support. It's MOnday now andI am listing
all the things I learned by playing last Saturday night:
1. I can make mistakes and the audience doesn't stand up and walk out
2. I did NOT allow myself enough practice time
3. I did not throughly enough analyze which problems were memory problems
and which were technique... and did not pay enough attention to developing
the technique... just kept hoping it would come with time (which, as I
said, I didn't give myself enough of)
4. I didn't have the awful memory slips I had feared... a few, but I
recovered if I just took a deep breath and dropped back or went on. So,
at
least, for me, memorization comes more easily than technical developmetn,
I guess. As I mentioned earlier, I think I need to more carefully analyze
the difference between memory problems and technical problems fro the
earliest practice stages.
5 The audience really loved hearing about the harp and about the music
and about the composers.. several people commented that it helped them to
enjoy the music more. I had been afraid that too much talking would seem
like a cop-out (easier to talk than to play?) or would bore them...
neither were true.
6. The slow pieces were no easier than the fast ones... under pressure of
performance, there seems to be no distinction.
7. I should have more carefully filed the callouses... they were just a
bit rough and this threw me off occasionally.
8. Always remember to put money into the "hat" (or the donations jar)
myself and be sure that there is someone to start passing it during my
last number.
9. PLayed through the whole program today and made notes of the most
obvious trouble spots so that I could isolate them for later practice. I
think this will help... I'm so sick of these pieces from having spent so
much time on them, but at the same time, after spending all that time, I
should see them through instead of leaving them behind. So, I'll have to
fasten my seat belt through the boredom. I did start ONE NEW piece today,
just to keep my sanity.
10. I was too nervous to eat before the performance and think some of my
shakiness ws due to empty stomach. I son't do this again... I'll have
some kind of "power" drink or protein shake or something I can get down to
give stamina.
Well, enough for now, hope this has some meaning to someone else
out there, too; I just needed to get it down before I forget, so thought
Iwould share it for what it's worth. Regards, Diane
> Diane:
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> CONGRATULATIONS on your wonderful debut as a professional!
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> Robin
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Diane Wild dwild@slonet.org
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