Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-01 20:42
Bob--I don't doubt that what you say plays a role, but of course you can agree that many professionals with tons of experience get nervous too, right? So it's not just experience.
Steven, you know what your 63 years experienced in? The same thing the legendary Stanley Drucker, at 85, (may he always be healthy) is. Making mistakes. It's in your nature as a human being.
Too many years ago I sat 2nd to the now virtuosic Jon Manasse at some High School event. Two notes appeared at the same place in our part, obviously our que that I'd play the bottom note, and Jon the top one.
At yet were were dissonate sounding. The people sitting next to me said it must be me. It was Jon. And it was no big deal regardless of who it was. It happened once in a rehearsal, and Jon played, as he always does, brilliantly.
If these guys can make a mistake, so can you!
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