By Gregory Beaver May 27, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
Tags advanced breath control, aerobic exercise, Awareness, balance, Beaver, body, breath control, breathing, breathing with scales, CD player, cellists, cello, cellobello, chest, control, controlled frenzy, Coordination, diaphragm, emit sound, Gregory, heart rate, Improve your talent, improvement, light-headed, muscles, musicians, oxygen, practicing, relaxation, simple formula, skill, smoothness, stomach, strengthen the diaphragm, T’ai Chi, talent, Technique, trouble passages, unbalancing the body, weakness, yoga
By Gregory Beaver May 20, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy, Practicing
By Blogmaster April 28, 2013
Tags a tough but dedicated teacher, An Organized Method of String Playing, anticipation in music, artists, Bloomington, born to teach, cello, Cello teacher, cellobello, child prodigy, civilized human existence, Dallas Symphony, dramatic success, from performance to teaching, Grammy Award-winning recording artist, great cello teachers, Indiana University, Indiana University Mourns Loss of Music Great, Jacobs School of Music, Janos, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, music's role in society, musician, performing artist, playing in public, Remembering Janos Starker, Starker, teacher, technical mastery, the Chicago Symphony, tremendous talent, true artistic giant
By Selma Gokcen April 18, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags abdominal muscles, affect, Alexander principle, Alexander Technique, attention, automatic process, breathing, breathing apparatus, breathing free, cello, cello pressing on chest, cellobello, chest cavity, conditions, correct position, divine influence, downward force of gravity, drink, efficient breathing, energy, enlivening, enter and depart life, exalting emotion, exercise, exhale, existing tension, expiration, food, freedom, freedom of the thorax and ribs, gases, Gokcen, gravity, guide, health, inspire, lungs, muscles, muscles relax, re-education, reducing air pressure, Selma, sequence, shift weight, straining for breath, touch, use affects function
By Elana Katz March 26, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags artistic clarity, balance, cellobello, clarity, comfortable position, concentrated creative expression, Cultivating softness, Elana Katz, elongation, energize, energy levels, exhale, heightened awareness, inhale, integrated into daily life, lungs, meditation, movement, muscular strength, nervous system, release, softness, strength, stretching, yoga
By Blogmaster March 20, 2013
Subjects Travel
Tags air travel, arguments, Benoît Machuel, campaign, cello, cellobello, draft amended regulation, EU Commission, EU Parliament, European employers, European managers, extra airline seats, fair treatment for musicians, General Secretary, International Federation of Musicians (FIM), Janne Schaffer, Katie Melua, liver performance sector, MEP, miles, Mr. George Bach, musical instruments carried on planes, petition, proposal, specific provisions for instruments on planes, success, support, Travel, victory
By Melissa Kraut March 14, 2013
Subjects Artistic Vision, Practicing
Tags achieve a common goal, athlete, bleachers, cello, cellobello, chamber music, Cleveland Institute of Music, competitions, discipline, early morning practice, eat well, exercise, frustration, getting enough sleep, high school orchestra assembly, increments, Interlochen Arts Academy, letter jacket, Melissa Kraut, orchestra, passion, pool, professor, progress, refine a skill, Reflections fro the bleachers, repetition, sick, sleep well, stretch, successful musicians, swimming, swimming mom, tempo, timing, training, unhealthy, Wenger chairs
By Jeffrey Zeigler March 12, 2013
Subjects Artists
Tags airports, Alix Spiegel, Amanda Palmer, Anna Clyne, Arizona State University, campaign, cello, cellobello, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Composer-In-Residence, donations, emeritus psychologist, entrepreneurs, funding a project, fundraising, fundraising in the 21st century, goals as artists, Hare, incentives, KickStarter, Krishna, millions of dollars, NPR, online funding program, Paola Prestini, perks, personal connection, process, raising money, receive funding, Rule of Reciprocation, solo album, supporters, TED talks, vision into art, work of Robert Cialdini
By Selma Gokcen March 11, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags aiming for a goal, Alexander Technique, automatic, balancing the instrument, bow, breath flowing, cello, cello technique, cellobello, conceptions, evaluate, Experience, exploring our habits, framework for self-study, freedom, fundamental knowledge, Gokcen, inner composer, lasting value of Alexander Technique, left hand, movement, muscular tension, music, musical expression, nervous system, phrasing, physical pleasure of playing, place of silence, Preconceived ideas, pressure in the sound, psycho-physical, re-training of musicians, reactions, refining sensation and awareness, self-study, Selma, Six Part Series, subconscious patterns of learning, tension, thinking, Thinking in a new way, working with music
