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Question for older pro players

Author: Jangles1099
Date: 2024-04-17 19:59

A common topic in professional sports are about when an athletes prime is. Usually I personally feel like athletically it's mid-late 20s. My question to you is when was your "prime" of playing clarinet? Has there ever been a point where you feel you noticed you weren't as talented as you were a few years ago? Or are you more like the famous quote from Hokusai "When I am 80 you will see real progress, At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvellous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before."

When I was younger I had hoped that someday I would be able to answer this question, however my days of trying to be a pro player are over as I decided many years ago to become a band director instead of going into performance