One more book before I go in a new direction: Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. I’m fascinated by creative people in other arts than music. Since I’m married to a visual artist (who loves music, luckily), I often get cross-pollination of ideas from another viewpoint (and she […]
Books Worth the Time VIII
I think the best of the books about John Wooden's teaching (which really was the bulk of his approach to coaching) is You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned, by Swen Nater (one of Wooden's players at UCLA) and Ronald Gallimore (a psychologist whose research was in teaching, and who with his colleague Roland Tharp […]
Books Worth Your Time VII
For this blog series I started out with the idea of alternating books on music with books on other subjects. But I've realized that most of the great music books are fairly well known or are are so specific that they might have limited interest (maybe I'll combine some in a post later). So […]
Books Worth Your Time VI
How do we, given the enormous number of things we do in our jobs as conductors, keep sane and healthy? How can we deal better with stress? Are there ways for us to do what we do with joy, full energy, and full engagement? This week's title is The Power of Full Engagement […]
Books Worth Your Time V
Sorry for the late posting! Crazy day/week! My next recommendation is a book by Doug Lemov, who you may know from the book Teach Like a Champion or its follow-up, Teach Like a Champion Field Guide. Both are terrific, all about better ways to teach. I recommend them, too! But today I'll look […]
Interrupting our current program . . . (Eric Ericson)
I finally found my copy of Ron Jeffers' notes from attending a workshop with Eric Ericson. These are so good and illustrate many aspects of Eric's art, so I thought it worthwhile to interrupt my current blog series on worthwhile reading to give this. As the pdf states, it's from a workshop in 1981 (Haystack […]