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Random Monday: Water Sport, Questionable Benefits and a Big Jackpot
- …oopsie
A part of this post was accidentally published last Saturday, was removed, but still showed up in RSS feeds. Some of you got a sneak peek.
- A clean horn is a happy horn?
From Copyranter – a website that discusses advertising – an alternative nudie promo calendar from a Russian plumbing supplies company demonstrates how not to clean your horn.As fun as it might be to have a naked model hold my horn while gallons of water are tossed about, there are better ways to do this.
If topless females bother you, do not follow these links. Single horn gets a bath. Wagner tuba gets one too.
Given the nature of the business being advertised, I wonder why they posed with brass instruments and not pipe wrenches, sewer pipes or other plumbing implements?
- Marching clarinet mayhem
From FailBlog a snapshot from a high school yearbook reminds us why to never abbreviate first names.
- More alpha on beta blockers
Gerald Klickstein at The Musician’s Way gives a fair assessment on beta blockers in “Musicians and beta blockers.”While I do agree that we all have the potential to be great performers, can a person with severe anxiety issues achieve a consistent, soulful performance level without a medical and/or psychological solution?
Conditions such as Generalized Anxiety Disorder, tachycardia, insomnia, depression and panic attacks — all which may lead to performance problems — may not respond to mental gymnastics, regular exercise and a good diet, no matter how sound or logical these natural methods might be.
Performance anxiety is not life-threatening of course, but it can be career-threatening. That being said, if the problem goes beyond the capabilities of the human will and does not get better over time, it seems rather silly not to seek medical attention.
- Who really benefits?
A fundraiser for disaster relief in Haiti presented by Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra proposes to be benefiting Haiti. It appears presenting the concert will take the lion’s share of the benefit funds however, according to the New York Times in “More Cash to Go to a Hall Than to Haiti.”The lesson appears to be that if you volunteer your services for a fund-raiser, see if others working the same concert are doing the same.
- Mr. Holland’s other opus
A student in Louisville, Kentucky was awarded a new horn valued at $17,000 as the prize for the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation Michael Kamen Solo Award.Uhm… JACKPOT!
The article does not mention the brand of instrument, but for $17K, it could easily be a high-end, custom triple horn.
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