What can a professional actor, mime, and head of the storied theater department at Northwestern University teach to musicians and conductors? A great deal. This amazing and practical book is the culmination of years of experience Bud Beyer developed while working with musicians from around the worldand beginning with Northwesterns own legendary conductor, John Paynter. Topics covered include musicianship as communication, memorization, the art of practice, the act of performance, and the connections between musicians and audiences. Central to the book are creative exercises designed to help musicians reconnect emotionally to themselves, to their colleagues, to their work, and to their audiences. After all, why do audiences come to the concert hall? Bud Beyer writes that they come for hopehope that, in the rarest of moments, they would find in the music a connection with themselves, with each other, and with the tone and dream they have searched for all their lives…hope that the dynamic of the performance would not be us, passively, watching you search, but would rather be us, together, searching for the same dream. When all of uscome together through music, the circle is truly complete.

Publisher

GIA Publications

Composer

Bud Beyer

Instrument

Reference

Pages

196

ISBN

9781622771035

Stock code

G8766

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