Klarinet Archive - Posting 000555.txt from 1999/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] two totally unrelated questions
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:26:11 -0400

At 07:30 PM 4/11/99 -0400, Erin Margarette Bray wrote:
>Regarding performance nerves, I have the same problem. For the longest
>time, I managed to use a 'mind over matter' thing that resulted in me
>focusing more on not being nervous and on not shaking than on the music.
>Not a good result. My teacher eventually made it part of my assignment to
>research and talk to people that take a beta-blocker called Inderal. It
>is a little pill for people with high blood pressure that a lot performers
>use to get rid of the shakes. It works with a few small problems. It
>doesn't make you tired or anything, but it does tend to make one
>apathetic--that is, you know you made a mistake, but you just don't care
>and you don't really care how you play. This can be fixed by adjusting
>your dosage, but many of the people I talked to say that it can take the
>'edge' out of a performance. You should check into it if your nerves trip
>you up badly enough.
>
So far, anyway, I have noticed that, regarding performance nerves, the more
you do it, the less it bothers you. But, in a soloist setting, I still
have a little tendency toward what I call "knee vibrato."

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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