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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000048.txt from 2003/01

From: LJBlib@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] recovering from a bad recital
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 14:54:50 -0500

<PRE>In response to the sensitive student with high musical aspirations I always
say to them the following. " It's happened to everyone at some time. Do you
realize that the ONLY people who NEVER make a mistake are those who give up
trying." They are oddly comforted by me telling them of some of my own more
horrendous goofs--like coming in a bar early on the big oboe solo at the end
of the Schubert Unfinished, and continuing on til the end, a bar ahead--pure
nerves and fright at the time. Yes, I've since played it correctly, and
that conductor, God bless him was kind. I very nearly walked out at
intermission and quit, but because he was kind I went back to finish the
concert ok. Never forgot it tho, after 40 years ... Lois
Barton