Ideal for amateurs and professionals alike, this innovative, imaginative guide demonstrates how musicians can reach their full potential. Delving deeply into the methodology and inspiration required to energize and enliven music making, this manual offers countless suggestions for creating joy and excitement in performance. A stimulating series of activities and reflections using YouTube video clips clearly illustrates ideas, concepts, and techniques such as breathing, pulse, and movement. This entertaining reference also recounts the author's experiences singing, conducting, and playing with violinist Joshua Bell, Latin musician Tito Puente, symphony conductors Leonard Bernstein and Gustavo Dudamel, and even with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his I Have a Dream speech.
- ISBN10 1622770307
- ISBN13 9781622770304
- Publish Date 1 September 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint GIA Publications
- Format eBook
- Pages 252
- Language English