Klarinet Archive - Posting 000247.txt from 2002/01

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] College Auditions
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:44:20 -0500

on 1/10/2002 7:16 AM, Neil Leupold wrote:

>And then, of course, there's "The Inner Game of Music", a collaboration
>between
>Timothy Gallwey and Don Greene,

IIRC it's Barry Green, a bass player in Cincinnati Symphony.

>an adaptation of the tennis version to
>music. I
>found the adaptation to be less clear/effective than the original, but
>that's one
>of the points of these books -- each person is unique and responds as such to
>different angles and approaches to a given issue.

I found the same thing, and in addition it's longer. For me, the original
IGoT is much more concise and to the point. The adaptations are nice, and
I'm sure they make Mr. Gallwey a lot of royalties, but...

Anyway, as Neil suggests, YMMV.

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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