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Author: swkeess
Date: 2007-04-14 01:02
Our community band gala concert is tomorrow night, a performance that we've been working on for several months. I've been having a few dreams lately about concert performance problems; usually I'm running late and missing the start of the concert. Last night was the worst, however, as I dreamed that not only was I missing my bass clarinet, but when I did find it the mouthpiece was a cheap piece of blue plastic that was too loose and the ligature would not fasten on tightly to the reed. When I finally got on stage, my stand and music were missing. The feeling of panic was terrible. I am well prepared for this concert and not nervous when performing, so was wondering how many of you on this board also experience performance nightmares before an important event?
Susan K.
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Author: kilo
Date: 2007-04-14 01:17
Funny you should mention this. I had one of those dreams just last week — in real life I was due to attend my first rehearsal with a new band the next day. In my dream when I showed up for practice I was not only given a crappy blue plastic (hey, what is it witrh "blue plastic"?) clarinet instead of my Series 10 but every reed I had was broken clean in half! I used to stay awake all night before a concert but over the years my nerves have calmed down and I only occasionally get one of these classic sorts of dreams. The dream was beneficial in at least one respect —the next night I made damn sure I had plenty of good reeds.
edit: typos
Post Edited (2007-04-14 09:29)
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-04-14 04:27
once in a dream I went to a rehearsal and opened my case- forgot the barrel at home.
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-04-15 00:22
It sounds like some people are eating too much in the way of liver and onions before they go to bed. "Strong" foods have a way of prompting that sort of nighttime thinking...
I've dreamt of leaving a horn (usually my beloved bass clarinet) behind at jobs, but it is always in conjunction with some other horror story (having someone lift the payroll money, no way to get electric power at a gig, etc), not just by itself. And, I should add, I am partial to onions and garlic in my food...
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-04-15 12:50
I used to have nightmares of a similar kind every time I had to perform in public. My solution: Stop performing in public! Not that I'm recommending anything so drastic to someone who plays well enough to *belong* in public, of course. I didn't--and that's probably why my nightmares rarely involved problems with the equipment, although I did have a recurring dream about the piano biting me: repeatedly slamming its keyboard lid on my hands! My nightmares mostly involved things that were all my own fault, such as getting stuck in a rondo (rondo rondo rondo rondo...), or playing the wrong note at the end of a repeat and getting thrown back to the beginning again and again. Did that in real life once!
Cutting garlic out of my diet was completely out of the question, however. Life is barely worth living without garlic--and it keeps away the vampires. Okay, kidding about the vampires....
Lelia
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-04-15 13:58
Lelia Loban wrote:
> Life is barely worth living without
> garlic--and it keeps away the vampires. Okay, kidding about
> the vampires....
Whaddaya mean, you're just kidding about the garlic? I've been eating garlic all my life and never met no vampires yet. That dang garlic WORKS, I tell you. No kidding.
Just following the logic I read here all the time 
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