Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2006/09

From: "Curtis Bennett" <curtis.bennett@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] confidence?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:10:30 -0400

I was listening to some streaming radio station just now, and the idea
of playing difficult music got me to thinking.

Do professional musicians have to learn to develop confidence or is it
something that comes naturally to them?

I'm just an amateur, so my closest exposure to a big audience is
performing the 1812 in front of about 50,000 people in a community
band for the 4th of July. But that's as one of about 15 clarinet
players.

The notion of being a professional clarinetist must be something else
entirely. The idea that you would be expected to perform, flawlessly,
extremely difficult music all the time must be extremely difficult.

For those of you who are professionals, how do you cope with this? Or
is it something you really even think about?

--
Curtis Bennett

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