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Marcie Ewasko wrote:
>As a professional musician, I will tell you what it is like to be a
>performer. We have rehearsed, learned our parts as well as other parts,
>so that we may give you the best performance we can. It involves a very
>high degree of concentration that is easily dispelled by noises from the
>audience. Each piece, each movement of a work, has its own mood to be
>established, and that too is broken by audience noise. Are we all prima
>donnas lost in our own little worlds of music? No! We are trying to work
>together, with all the other players, as an entity. And if part of that
>unit is broken, the work you are hearing is in danger of falling apart.
That's interesting. I wonder if there are other professional musicians
who, like me completely block out audience noise while performing. Unless
I'm counting rests I don't notice what, if anything, the audience is doing.
And this happens when I'm performing solo works with piano. If I'm in an
orchestra? Heck, I'm usually not even nervous.
Maybe I'm a rarity, but the strength (or lack of) my playing has to do
with how well-prepared I am, not whether an audience member sneezes.
-Lindsey Orcutt
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