“Fire the Critic (And hire a Self-Coach)” is one piece of advice in Noa Kageyama’s excellent Bulletproof Musician course – which I recently took at Juilliard’s evening division. When you’re trying to get in the ‘zone’ and play freely, the last thing you need is a pesky little voice in ...
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One of my favorite parts of Jeffrey Fleishman’s excellent, lively profile of LA Philharmonic president Deborah Borda was the revelation that a pianist booked to play with the orchestra needed to stay in a hotel within three blocks of live chickens. I can imagine that artist managers (and hotel staff) ...
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