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Re: What do pros do . . .

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-07-18 07:00

Well it's gotta be some combination of all of that with a heavy emphasis on "shrug it off." After all, we are all human and make mistakes. To be great major league batter, you only have to get a hit one in every three times at bat.

I dimly recall a 'recording day' during the regular Summer master classes that Robert Marcellus used to do at Northwestern. He played a recording of Ralph McLane doing the 'cat' in Peter and the Wolf in which Marcellus characterized the major flub as "the cat gets impaled on his way up the tree." It's hard to say what part of that recording process made it ok to let that go, but there it was. But I'm pretty sure Ralph McClane never let that hold him back.

I prefer the OPPOSITE stories. One such is of the great Michael Henoch, oboist of the Chicago Symphony while a student at Northwestern. There was a particularly hairy solo in a boisterous wind ensemble work (specific one escapes me) that he missed EVERY time in rehearsal. Come the concert Michael nailed it and immediately jumped up, fist in the air, screaming, "YEAH!!!." The audience just thought that was part where the oboist stands up and yells. [story courtesy of John Paynter]

.............Paul Aviles

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