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COMPLETING THE CIRCLE

COMPLETING THE CIRCLE

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What can a professional actor, mime, and head of the storied theater department at Northwestern University teach to musicians and conductors? A great deal. This amazing and practical book is the culmination of years of experience Bud Beyer developed while working with musicians from around the world—and beginning with Northwestern’s own legendary conductor, John Paynter. Topics covered include musicianship as communication, memorization, the art of practice, the act of performance, and the connections between musicians and audiences. Central to the book are creative exercises designed to help musicians reconnect emotionally to themselves, to their colleagues, to their work, and to their audiences. After all, why do audiences come to the concert hall? Bud Beyer writes that “they come for hope—hope that, in the rarest of moments, they would find in the music a connection with themselves, with each other, and with the tone and dream they have searched for all their lives…hope that the dynamic of the performance would not be us, passively, watching you search, but would rather be us, together, searching for the same dream.” When all of uscome together through music, the circle is truly complete.

Artist
Composer Bud Beyer
Publisher GIA Publications
Series
Pages 196(07)
Language
Instrument
Category Reference
SubCategory1 Music Teaching
SubCategory2
Medium Book
ISBN13 9781622771035
ISBN13
Dimensions 226x152