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Performance Success: Performing Your Best Under Pressure.
by Don Greene, Ph.D. Routledge Press, (29 W. 35th St., New York, NY 10001), 2002. 149 pp., $16.95.
This book represents a methodical approach to every musician's greatest challenge: the seemingly insurmountable pressure of performance.
Of particular interest is Don Greene's unique background. Beginning with his childhood hobbies of gymnastics and diving, he became interested in performance stress and how it determines performance outcome. After completing school at West Point, he went through special paratrooper and commando training, eventually selected for the Green Berets. His military experience and training uniquely equipped him with certain insights and techniques for performance and competition under stress. During his doctoral studies in psychology, he applied these insights and techniques to the performance of the San Diego Police SWAT team in basic maneuvers. The scope of his study then expanded to the Olympic diving team, the World Championship swimming team and even professional golfers.
His introduction to the musical world began with a call for help from a golfing client, Ed Castilano, who just happened to be the principal bassist with the Syracuse Symphony. Castilano quickly saw that the lessons he learned while working on his putting were directly applicable to his musical performance. Together, they worked to translate Greene's work into "musical language," which he has used in a number of lecture, master class and individual coaching settings. He has worked with groups and individuals at the Juilliard School, the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, the OperaWorks Intensive Program in Los Angeles and with various individuals--many of them well-known performers--to develop his program and assist clients in their pursuit of successful performance techniques.
Performance Success represents Greene's program in text form. It begins with an Artist's Performance Survey, consisting of 100 statements to be rated on a scale of one to five (one=untrue for you ... five=very true for you). Groups of questions are to be answered while imagining oneself in a specific setting: rehearsing/performing, warming up before performing, performing and experiencing problems and finishing a performance after resolving problems. The test may be taken and scored manually or completed and scored automatically at Greene's website, www.dongreene.com. This test, combined with a ...
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