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
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
