Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 1999/03

From: "B. Keplinger" <bcaslin@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Recitals...
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 19:57:42 -0500

At 11:56 PM 3/2/99 -0600, Victor Freyer <vfreyer@-----.com> wrote:
>I have often considered committing myself to a recital so that I would
>obligate myself to focusing on simply a musical goal. I have never
>felt that I could pull the time from my other pursuits to do it well.
>I am mildly envious that you were able to apply yourself to a recital
>of 20th C. works, and also want to congratulate you on your ability
>to pull it off.
Thank you.
I expected to do well (I worked very hard), but I actually did a little
better than I expected. (I recorded the concert, and I actually wince very
little.) I have kept up a fairly decent practice schedule since then
(difficult with a full-time job, wife in school and self taking computer
classes...), but I have had a couple of breakthroughs that have helped me
focus and get a lot accomplished in a short time. The first was finding
myself reading ahead from one to two bars -- very helpful in rapid passages
in which one must "set up" one's fingers *before* starting the passage.
The second was fallout from my yoga class; when wood-shedding a passage,
every time or two that I up the metronome, I stop and do some yoga-like
movements (along with the breathing) before launching into playing.
Besides (I am sure) staving of motion injury, I almost without fail play
the passage more smoothly and acurately than I would have without the pause
and stretch. I conjecture that this results from both relaxing the hand
and finger muscles and giving my brain some extra time in setting to muscle
memory that which I just played. I also keep the improved playing when I
approach the same music after laying off it for a few days.
-Bruce

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