The importance of preforming
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Musicians/artists/performers, those who live in the world of creative outreach, often live at-the-mercy of the critic’s review.
Concerts are evaluated by the response-of-the-audience; the outcome of the festival adjudication determines the perceived worthiness of the efforts-and-energies dedicated to the presentation.
We have been conditioned to eagerly anticipate the standing ovation, the shouts of “Bravo!” the first place trophy, and other affirming extrinsic responses.
This is not to say those aren’t wonderful byproduct benefits, however if the end-all is simply the “approval of others” rather than the joy derived from the process of music-making, we may have the proverbial cart-before-the-horse.
To reconnect to Mr. Newman’s quotable quote, “If one waits until one could do it so well no one can find fault with it,” we may find ourselves always being hesitant to take-the-stage in fear of being judged as ill prepared, incapable, without discipline, and/or irresponsible in our musical quest.
One can get trapped in the seemingly endless act of preparation and never experience the thrill of performance.
This is certainly not to suggest we sidestep the rigors of developing our rehearsal skills and talents (and those of our students) to the highest level of proficiency.
Quite the contrary; in fact it increases the importance of the self-discipline required to connect the expressive musical language to the listener.
Like any other “learned skill,” we become more proficient with each concert, with each recital, with each performance, and hopefully the PERSONAL JOY of sharing music provides the drive and the motivation to develop the love of the art form.
There is an immeasurable thrill when listening to THE FIRST CONCERT being given by a fifth-grade ensemble.
Perfect intonation? Artistic phrasing? Outstanding articulation? Certainly none of these, but it is all overshadowed by the spirit of the young musicians experiencing the pleasure of offering their best efforts to those who are fortunate enough to witness this once-in-a-lifetime debut.
And if we didn’t schedule the concert and waited until every member of the group played flawlessly, I suspect the silence would be deafening.
let the music begin…
From selina(copy and paste from band fusion)
Concerts are evaluated by the response-of-the-audience; the outcome of the festival adjudication determines the perceived worthiness of the efforts-and-energies dedicated to the presentation.
We have been conditioned to eagerly anticipate the standing ovation, the shouts of “Bravo!” the first place trophy, and other affirming extrinsic responses.
This is not to say those aren’t wonderful byproduct benefits, however if the end-all is simply the “approval of others” rather than the joy derived from the process of music-making, we may have the proverbial cart-before-the-horse.
To reconnect to Mr. Newman’s quotable quote, “If one waits until one could do it so well no one can find fault with it,” we may find ourselves always being hesitant to take-the-stage in fear of being judged as ill prepared, incapable, without discipline, and/or irresponsible in our musical quest.
One can get trapped in the seemingly endless act of preparation and never experience the thrill of performance.
This is certainly not to suggest we sidestep the rigors of developing our rehearsal skills and talents (and those of our students) to the highest level of proficiency.
Quite the contrary; in fact it increases the importance of the self-discipline required to connect the expressive musical language to the listener.
Like any other “learned skill,” we become more proficient with each concert, with each recital, with each performance, and hopefully the PERSONAL JOY of sharing music provides the drive and the motivation to develop the love of the art form.
There is an immeasurable thrill when listening to THE FIRST CONCERT being given by a fifth-grade ensemble.
Perfect intonation? Artistic phrasing? Outstanding articulation? Certainly none of these, but it is all overshadowed by the spirit of the young musicians experiencing the pleasure of offering their best efforts to those who are fortunate enough to witness this once-in-a-lifetime debut.
And if we didn’t schedule the concert and waited until every member of the group played flawlessly, I suspect the silence would be deafening.
let the music begin…
From selina(copy and paste from band fusion)
Monday, 16 August 2010
Reminder for Everyone
- Remember to fill in and sign your Musical Instruments On Loan forms.
- If you don't have the form,pls get it from Zhu Hui on Tuesday.
- Hand in your consent form if you haven hand in.
Pass everything that mentioned above by TMR!!
Thanks,
From Andrea through Selina.
Pls do visit the trumpet blog if you are free!I will be updating abt band stuff every now and then.Rmb to tagged the blog oso!hehehe~~or else the shoutbox will be blank blank derh.
Andrea=D
Labels: Reminder for everyone
Sunday, 15 August 2010
New Song is added to the music playlist
- To My Comrades-composed by Satoshi Yagisawa
- Ross Roy-composed by Jacob de hann
- To My Comrades-composed by Satoshi Yagisawa
- One moment in time
Labels: Song in the music playlist
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Yo!!!This blog is gonna rot liao or it's already rotting!!
Anyway,I jux change the blogskins,the chatbox and i added a music player!
I'm tooo bored so i change the whole thing.
This time the skin don haf trumpet or any music kind of pix
But isn't i nicer than the previous skins?
I think it is.
I took quite long to edit the whole blog
so pls don't take it for granted!
I will try 2 update this blog whenever im free or bored!
Oh,if you guys wan any song u can ask me 2 help u add in to the music playlist.
But pls choose classical music and not pop song.
If u all wan 2 choose it urself or change anythings.
You guys can!
The blog,shoutbox and the music player account has the same username and passwords.
If u dunno the username and password ask selina,me or go find it urself!
Is stated at one of the blog post which i lazy 2 find it.
That all,i dunno wat say lerh.
2 things to note
Anyway,I jux change the blogskins,the chatbox and i added a music player!
I'm tooo bored so i change the whole thing.
This time the skin don haf trumpet or any music kind of pix
But isn't i nicer than the previous skins?
I think it is.
I took quite long to edit the whole blog
so pls don't take it for granted!
I will try 2 update this blog whenever im free or bored!
Oh,if you guys wan any song u can ask me 2 help u add in to the music playlist.
But pls choose classical music and not pop song.
If u all wan 2 choose it urself or change anythings.
You guys can!
The blog,shoutbox and the music player account has the same username and passwords.
If u dunno the username and password ask selina,me or go find it urself!
Is stated at one of the blog post which i lazy 2 find it.
That all,i dunno wat say lerh.
2 things to note
1.Can anybody change the lady pix to other pix lyk a trumpet or any thing related 2 us?Or you all wanna jux leave the lady pix there coz it's nice oso.
2.If you all wanna blog anything,pls change the font colour to black coz the original font colour is tooo light!
Andrea=D
Labels: New blogskins and widgets
Biography
This group of music craze consist of
Joey Wong SL'09~10
Selina Ro SL'10~11
Andrea Mensono
Chanel Ng
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Clara Ong
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