Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 2000/05

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Playing when ill
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:37:21 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> People have told me that I played really well on several occasions when=

> I was actually feeling like death warmed up.
> =

> Have others here had this experience?

I posted here in November 1998 about playing Beethoven's Eighth
under the influence of a fever. I came quite close to passing
out in the second movement and didn't play several lines. The
ironic aspect was that I played the third movement better than
I ever had. This was probably because I was more relaxed than
usual, since my expectations of myself had diminished drastically.
I was happy just to get through it, and that eliminated a lot of
potential tension.

Listening to the tape, I would never have known I was sick except
for the omitted notes.

Claudia

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