By Selma Gokcen March 4, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
By Selma Gokcen February 25, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, arms, beauty, bend and extend, body at ease, bow strokes, Casals, cello, cello playing muscles, cellobello, challenges, collapse, contraction, dynamics, energy, fingers, flexible, function, Gokcen, Habits, importance of quietness, increased resistance, inner pitch, misguided effort and unease, nasal sound, neck, partnership, perspective, powerful accents, powerful arms, pressured sound, principle of opposition, process, pull and push, repeated sensory stimulation, Selma, sensitive gesture, sensory awareness, simple gesture, Six Part Series, teaching table, thinking in new ways, unwanted sound, volume, wrist
By Selma Gokcen February 18, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, associations, balance, bowing, calm breathing, cello, cellobello, contraction, engage in conversation, exploration, Gokcen, Habits, head-neck-back relationship, ischial tuberosities, natural, natural movement, negative associations, one-sided instrument, opposition, pelvic rocker bones, positive associations, posture, power, practicing, quiet practice, receive the cello, relationships, rotation of the spine, Selma, shifting weight, simple activities, sitting, Six Part Series, Spine, tension, tension in shoulders and back, thinking in new ways, torso, understanding, value
By Paul Katz February 17, 2013
Subjects Travel
Tags air travel, aircraft, airport customs, Amtrack Regulation, Amtrak, baggage, buying a second seat, cabins, cabins of aircraft, cello, cellobello, customer service, documents, extra charges, FAA, having the proper documents, international customs, Katz, Medium-Sized Musical Instrument, musical tours, passport, Paul, purchasing extra seats, regulations, rules, service, special items, tickets, touring careers, train travel, Travel, travel officials, travel with instruments
By Paul Katz February 12, 2013
Subjects Travel
Tags air security staff, air travel, Alban Gerhardt, bow snapped over bridge, broken cello bow, brutal, careless, cellist, cello, cello bow, cello bridge, cellobello, damaged bow, damaged instrument, forced the case shut, handling instruments, Heinrich Knopf, Katz, O’Hare International Airport, outrage, Paul, plane, rare cello bow, security, security check, security officers, snapped cello bow, Transportation Security Administration workers, Travel, TSA, US Airways, varnish
By Selma Gokcen February 11, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags ability, Alexander Technique, attention to detail, bow arm, cellists, cello, cellobello, creating balance, cultivate awareness, energy flowing through the body, Gokcen, Habits, instrumentalists, Listening, music, musicians, opposition, Part II, powerful force of energy, proper weight transfer, quietness, relationship of the head back and spine, Selma, sharpening the senses, Six Part Series, tension in the neck, the back, Thinking in a new way, top level performing, trying, well-coordinated body, willing
By Mark Summer February 6, 2013
Subjects Artistic Vision
Tags action, adventures, aspirations, Berklee School of Music, cello, cellobello, contemplate, decisive action, Development, dreams, educator, embarrassment, gauge progress, gifts, goals, hero, improvising, jazz, Mark, meditation, mentors, mindfulness meditation, musical hero, musical journey, musicians, New Year, New Year's Goals, possibility, practicing, recording, recording artists, respect, sessions, specific dreams, string quartets, Summer, taking advantage of opportunities, The Secret, travel with instruments, trips, Turtle Island String Quartet, Utah, Zion National Park
By Selma Gokcen February 3, 2013
Subjects Playing Healthy
Tags Alexander Technique, animate, arms, attention, automatic movement, back, behave, brain, cello, cellobello, collapse, doing, exploration, feet, fingers, force, Gokcen, Habits, hands, laying on the floor, learning, legs, manifest, mental messages, music, music-making, nature, neck, Observation, overcome deeply ingrained habits, Pablo Casals, Patrick Macdonald, perceive, powerful expressiveness, pressure, primary information, process, pushing, re-education, react, rediscovering, Selma, shortcuts, shoulders, strain, stretching, the value of quietness, thinking
By Blaise Dejardin February 2, 2013
Subjects Artists
Tags arrangements, backstage, Blaise, Boston, Boston Cello Quartet, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, BSO, cello, cellobello, change of concept, classical music, comedy, compositions, concert, Dejardin, fun classical music, generations, jazz, making a living, musical comedy, musical styles, new arrangements, orchestra playing, orchestral musicians, Ozawa Hall, quartets, repertoire, rotating chairs, skype, strange concepts, structure, success, Tanglewood, Tanglewood Cello Ensemble, Tanglewood on Parade, Tanglewood Shed, tango, virtuosic music, virtuoso
By Martha Baldwin January 27, 2013
Subjects Orchestra
Tags Baldwin, cello, cellobello, challenges, chamber music, choices, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Orchestra, colleagues, concert halls, concerts, direction, establish a career, family time, focus, happiness, inspiration, lifestyle, Martha, mom-friendly schedule, money, musical talents, orchestra, orchestral jobs, personal ideas, predictability, rehearsals, routine, short attention span, social outlets, soloist, stability, status, Teaching, Touring, Travel, variety, working full time
