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Passionate Practice: the Musician's Guide to Learning, Memorizing, and Performing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
by Margaret Elson. Regent Press (6020-A Adeline, Oakland, CA 94608), 2002. 108 pp., $19.95.
This book has much to offer the thoughtful reader, especially the adult student intrigued by psychological approaches and looking for new pathways to security, flow, self-acceptance and enjoyment in performance. A slender spiral-bound handbook, it also includes a few interactive workbook-type exercises.
There are three main sections: Preparation, Practice and Performance. The author's voice is conversational, confident and chummy--much like a friendly therapist who brings an entertaining personality to sessions with clients. This is fitting, because Elson's professional credentials are mainly in the area of counseling psychology, and counseling forms a significant part of her work--although she also has taught piano for many years.
The book delineates how we can call upon focusing techniques, imagery, body awareness and many other types of auto-suggestion in order to practice efficiently, overcome performance fears and find our expressive voice.
The strongest contribution here is the variety of psychological devices; if one strategy doesn't connect with a reader, it's quite likely that another one will--and this is good, since the dynamics of performance psychology are so very personal. Probably all the book's ideas have proven helpful with various clients in the author's experience, and ...
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