“Good recovery,” someone said to me after the recital was over. I already knew I hadn’t played my best. The mistakes piled on, and each one made me play worse, like a domino effect. To have someone else acknowledge it as well didn’t help. Others gave me the generic “good job”, but that also deepenedContinue reading “How to Recover from a Bad Performance”
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How to Audition
Auditions can be scary. They are packed full of nerves, which in turn makes you do the two exact things that are counterproductive to playing music: 1) losing your sense of time, and 2) not breathing. How do you combat that? Well, you might think “duh,” play slower and breathe more. Yes, but there’s much moreContinue reading “How to Audition”
Elizabeth Erenberg 