Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2006/09

From: Walter Mamlok <wmamlok@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] confidence?
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:16:41 -0400

Curtis,

For me, preparation is the key to confidence, at any level.

Walter Mamlok
On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, at 05:08 PM, Curtis Bennett wrote:

> 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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