Wednesday, October 28, 2009

What I feel about this blogger

As we have been working with this blog I think we achieved alot about how to express our feeling. And have learned to use the reason to explain what we like or don't like, It's not feel like I was studing but I felt enjoy to do those things . Moreover, the topic that we wrote it's similar with our major, so we can enjoy to using language for discussing about that. Beside that I think we have funny time to make another thing except just only practising, I have learned how to use the website because I never use this before so this is my new experience to make it.
Until now I still can't use it much but I will try to keep learning. Thank you our teacher for creat thing like this, at least I think you have got so many knowledge about music, haven't you?

Open Topic : Review the book " the inner game of Music

P = p - I
I know thi equation from the book which I have read for two weeks ago. "the inner game of Music" is a book that was written by Barry Green who's has been principal bassist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Professor of double bass at the University of Cincinnati with W. Timothy Gallway who's fascinated with the problem of how human beings interfere with their own ability to achieve and learn.
The "P" is refers to Performance, "p" stands for potential and i means interference.
They suggest that " We can improve performance by reducing interference". Most people try to improve their performance by increasing their potential through practising and learning new skills. But don't forget, the reducing interference is the thing that we can't ignore. At the same time that potential is being trained and the result is that our actaul performance comes closer to our true potential.
I think it's definitely true but in practical, it's not easy to eliminate our interference especially when we have performance on stage it's very hard to control the situation like that because in that moment there are manythink going on your head.
However, this book is help me to cope with problem by learn more about myself "what is my habit when I was nervous or what I was thinking when I performed?". This is the important point to know and gradually change my mind.
Finally, I think "Mind concept" is the best way to eliminate interference by concentration what we are doing at that moment and try to express with that.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Review Concert

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert on Friday 2nd of October 2009. The concert’s name was “ Rare Occasion”. This concert includes two special guests from New York. One is Okko Kamu, he is the principal guest of Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Moreover, there was special Pianist “Anne-Marie Mc Dermott”. She played piano concerto No.20 in D minor, K. 466 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Her performance was really musical, I got the feeling of the classical melody, structure, the shape of melody and the contrast of dynamics made the music so beautiful. The audiences clapping demonstrated that she succeeded in this concert. She selected to play English Suite for piano by Johann Sebastian Bach with gave more pleasure for the audience.