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Have you ever heard the phrase “perception is reality?” I read a book the other day in which
the author described one such experience.
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behavior. The man looked at him, apologized, and explained that they had just come from the
hospital where his wife had died about an hour ago, noting that he wasn’t sure how to deal
with this and that the kids probably didn’t know how to handle it either.
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Admittedly, that is a pretty dramatic example, but what if there were a way to “reframe” the
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about them? To feel more positively about them, and perhaps even to enjoy them?
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I think you can — it’s just a matter of finding a believable framework that allows you to go
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into a performance situation with a more positive mindset. Whether the framework is
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objectively “true” or not is beside the point — try to resist the temptation to evaluate its
validity. In other words, whether the man’s wife really died, or if he had lost his job, or if his
sister was in a severe car accident doesn’t matter. The point is that when we change how we
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Call me crazy, but I always enjoyed competitions and auditions more than performances. Did
I get nervous? Absolutely, but I loved it anyway.
How did I become such a nut case? Well, in my mind, juries, audition panels, and
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They’re trapped
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For instance, I was listening to a percussion mock audition the other day. The percussionist
was playing the soft snare drum excerpt from Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije Suite. I had heard
that this was a difficult excerpt, but would never have guessed from how easy this individual
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to interpret the results of this experiment, but again, we’re just trying to find a reasonable
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privilege to play for not just one listener with a high degree of sensitivity and appreciation for
the nuances of your performance, but a collection of such individuals? When else are you
going to have the opportunity to have such an audience take time out of their day to listen to
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bowings. Having done this much work, I wanted someone to notice all of these details. I
wasn’t thrilled if the listener disagreed with or disliked my choices of course, but this was far
better than the details going unnoticed. It was like telling a joke, and nobody realizing that I
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Another interpretation of the Joshua Bell incident is that perhaps Bell has more experience
playing full recitals than busking, and both was put in an unsuitable place — where people are
hurrying to work — and was performing unsuitable material for that setting. Put him in a place
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leave. They don’t enjoy how we play and that makes me very tense and prevents me from
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I have friends who appreciate music, but aren’t musicians. They often leave mediocre
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