Weekly Digest: Improvising, Chunking, Exhaling
January 11, 2012
A Roadmap for the New Music Economy
Pursuing two careers simultaneously
Work on your improv skills (both as teacher and performer) at this new blog
And get some more improv ideas from books by Alice Kanack
Solve those tricky technical passages
And read up on “chunking” (thanks to the FLUTE list this past week for a great discussion!)
Trouble breathing? Consider a Breath Builder
Or check out Body Mapping specialist Vanessa Mulvey’s latest post on Flute Focus, Exhale!
Need ideas for your next concert?
Perform in unexpected places
Or visit the home of “imaginative arrangements of woodwind ensembles“
Cheers to the Cambia Flute Ensemble of Tennessee and their innovative programs and to the Asphalt Orchestra, a 12 piece marching band the NYT calls “cooly brilliant and infectious”
And finally, check out Alex Ross’s picks for the best classical performances of 2011
