Klarinet Archive - Posting 000859.txt from 2003/04

From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Performance Anxiety techniques/remedies
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:43:15 -0400

Luckily, I've never had much problem with stage fright when playing the
clarinet. My only real problem with it came, instead, when I started
conducting in public, in my junior year in high school. My solution was to
visualize that my grandmother, who had died the year before, was in the
second row, watching. She would have been very displeased if I had let
something "that insignificant" control my performance. It worked quite well
... for me.

Of course, you could try the method the principal tenor in the opera company
at university used. Three minutes before his first entrance, he would down
about 10 ounces of pure vodka. Then the stage manager would give him a
shove in the direction of the stage. Once he made it onto the stage, he was
fine, but I often thought he would die of heart failure before he got there.

Jim Hobby

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