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Jeff, let's hear from you

Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2000-02-08 23:51

Wait a minute, I'm not banning anything, only trying to influence others who might be thinking of using these drugs.

We really need to examine our attitudes toward musical performance, especially classical music. Most people will not be or are not making their living playing, so for them, using these drugs is totally out of proportion, unless, this is generalized performance anxiety about anything and everything, not just playing. But if you take a kid and you instill in him the concept that he has to succeed at whatever he's doing, whether it's sports, calculus, or clarinet, then he has no perspective about what's really important. He thinks if he fails at clarinet performance, he's a loser in life.

So Jeff, we haven't heard from YOU in a while. What do you think about all this?

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