Performing – Page 3 – Jed Scott Music

What They End Up Singing

Maybe what they’re singing is more right than what’s written.

There’s only one way to find out if you like the touring life.

Music’s gift is also its curse: that it’s profoundly temporal.

Perfect isn’t the goal. Growth is the goal.

Here’s a message for an ensemble on concert day.

Sometimes the comfortable pace isn’t what serves your students best.

I want to feel the rhythmic energy crackling.

It sometimes feels like the goal is to feel the music in ever-longer chunks of time.

Almost all of the hard work happens before opening night. I’m so interested in what comes after.

These two thoughts about performance nerves are helpful to me.