Importance of Music recitals or Performance concerts • Discipline and mastery It helps the students to be disciplined and to master their specific instrument. The discipline required to learn, memorize and perform the pieces is the same discipline you use when you are in college working on a term paper, at your job preparing the big power point presentation to your clients, presenting your court case to the judge and jury and so on. There’s a level of mastery that needs to be achieved in a recital. Nowadays, it seems there’s less encouragement or paths to mastery with all the instant gratification of digital downloads and games and apps. We don’t let our children go 5 seconds before we step in to help them with a frustrating problem. Mastery requires discipline and a commitment to “do it again…and again.” Malcolm Gladwell describes some great outliers including Bill Gates in Outliers: The Story of Success . It does take a lot of time, discipline and repetition to master anything. And music lessons culminating in a recital is a training ground for discipline on the road to mastery. Even better to start at such an early age! • Memorization Recitals help student develop memorization skills. • Performance Anxiety Anxiety is a big part of any public performance. A recital is a public performance and by repeatedly going through the process, the anxiety lessens over time as the students become more confident. • Mistakes Mistakes will happen as in life. In fact, how often do things go exactly the way you want them to? Your goal is to minimize them. But you can never achieve 100% perfection, you wouldn’t want to. To play like a machine is completely useless. It’s the mistakes that make you sound human and gives you unique expression. • Feedback Possibly the best part of a recital is the immediate feedback from the audience. There’s no waiting around for an acceptance letter in the mail, if you did well, you know it right now! And if not so well, then you know that too. What’s great about our recitals is they are safe space, a controlled environment as everyone is there rooting for you. It’s your home court and we all want you to make a slam dunk! And if you don’t, we’ll empathize with you and give you a hug too. It really doesn’t matter – you did your best. And there’s always the next recital.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:05:04 +0000
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