This therapy has been tried in the professional world, exactly the way you described it, but no way for a happy ending. These guys & gals are all victims of their profession and their exaggerated opinion of themselves. That is the problem. Otherwise your private counseling together with a few mugs of beer might be a good investment.
But all this does not work in the professional orchestra. The situation in a amateur or semi professional orchestra might be worse than that. ################################################################### Am 02.04.2011 um 23:09 schrieb Conja Summerlin: > If he's a nice guy, I would actually appeal to his better nature and take > him aside (or out for a beer) after a rehearsal and compliment him up one > side and down the other and say you love working with him but there's this > one little thing that he does that is keeps you from doing your best. If he > could just try to tone it down a bit, it would really help you out. > > Do it in a very respectful way and definitely do it in a very private place. > Chances are he'd be embarrassed he's a distraction and will try to help you > out and by taking his feelings into consideration, you're more likely to get > a better result. > > Thanks, > Conja > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 09:08, M Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Help! >> >> There is a member of the woodwind section [clarinet] in our orchestra who >> suffers from a very severe case of 'woodwind-itis', to the point where his >> spasmodic movements are throwing off the entire wind section. >> >> During a rehearsal for an upcoming performance of Mendelssohn's Midsummer >> Night's Dream, he actually took his left hand from his instrument and began >> conducting from his seat, as he was swaying back and forth. This occurred >> during the Nocturne, and unfortunately, I sit right behind the clarinet >> section. I'd rather not have two conductors to look at; one is quite enough! >> >> In the Overture, at the moment of the donkey calls, he partially rises in >> his seat, in time with the 'braying donkey'... which was admittedly sort of >> funny at the first rehearsal, but, frankly has become annoying as hell. >> >> Other members of the orchestra have commented about this, but no one seems >> to be able to offer a workable solution to curtail these contortions. He's a >> good player and all, but, alas, it's getting ridiculous. I can only imagine >> what this must look like from the audience's perspective-- this twitching, >> bobbing up-and-down, buffoon-like clarinetist. All he needs is the red nose >> and the Bozo the Clown hair... >> >> Short of firing the guy, I'd appreciate any hints on how this affliction >> might be remedied. >> >> Cheers, >> martin bender >> >> "All great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower; >> whoever has it will finally prevail." Winston Churchill >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/conja.summerlin%40gmail.com >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
