Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2017-02-25 19:42
Does a performance goal help motivate? It's sort of like a deadline. Does meeting a deadline make you better at anything besides hurrying up to meet a deadline? Or is the impetus of that stress actually beneficial to one's playing in a broader way?
Switching to Karl's point, before practice I sometimes listen to a YouTube performance by some excellent clarinetist and draw energy from it, trying to sound that beautiful, that accurate, that expressive, etc. However, one can also be energized by other musicians with remarkable attributes, whether they play sax, violin, piano, guitar, whatever - even percussion (Evelyn Glennie!) A couple years ago I rediscovered Maria Callas, whose recordings are like a masterclass in musical expression, and for weeks I kept trying to play everything like I imagined Maria Callas would sing it, which, hahaha, but still, there's a kind of enlarging effect.
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