Lawrence, we call that "Team Work". And receiving a correction by a colleague is a privilege as it demonstrates that even ONE person cares about what you do & cares about you.
If keeps that in mind (I think, you are doing so), then critics do not hurt, but the contrary, they will help. And, thinking that way, is professional perfect. Lawrence, please see a difference between "semi-pros", as I understand them, and free lancers, like you describe your professionality: teaching & playing regularly without all the social benefit full time hired musicians have. Some players, very good & musical players do not make it into full time engagement with a full time orchestra for many reasons & because of personal preferences anyway. When I addressed "semi-pros" in the past, I meant those reasonable players who live on "half wisdom", without systematic musical education or players with a day job in a very distant field plus 50% conservatory or academic musical education but behaving like 150% academic virtuosos just because they had attended one or more masterclasses by an internationally known soloist. ############################################### Am 07.05.2011 um 23:22 schrieb Lawrence Yates: > Yes, obviously it's important to listen but often other players can hear > things we miss. > > > A confident and mature approach from the entire section is important too - > we are a section, not four players. > > I'm one of Hans's dreaded "semi-pros" - I teach horn for a living and play > as much as I can (although that is going to change very soon). > > I play for an orchestra which records commercial cd's on a fairly regular > basis. We agree as a section that we should forget English politeness and > that if any player has a problem with what another player is doing, we say > so - if someone thinks I'm playing sharp/flat unmusically, then I want to > know and we can fight it out. It's worked so far. > > If we don't all have the confidence in each other to do that, then, when the > section sounds lousy on the cd, no-one will say, "what a crap 3rd horn", > they'll say, "what a crap horn section" and we don't want that - we all need > the cash! > > Cheers, > > Lawrence > -- > Lawrenceyates.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
