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As a professional musician I’m always looking for ways to optimize my ability to perform up to my potential on stage in front of an audience. In Present Yourself! Gelb applies the Alexander Technique to presentation skills. The focus of the book is actually on public speaking, but the basic principles are applicable to any kind of performance. With simple and practical suggestions we are shown how to create and execute memorable “performances” with poise. Gelb introduces Mind Mapping, a non-linear, whole brain approach to brainstorming and organizing ideas. Anyone interested in communicating effectively with greater ease should check out this excellent book. Recommended by David Nesmith.

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Dr. Langer takes her previously presented research in Mindfulness and applies it directly to learning. She explores seven myths, or mindsets, which have debilitating effects on the learning process. To counter the mindlessness of mindsets, she presents three characteristics of mindfulness: continuous creation, openness to new information and awareness of more than one perspective. Her examples of mindful learning can be directly applied to both practicing and performing. Reviewed by Jeanne H. Weisman.

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This book is in its own way as astonishing as The Musician’s Soul and as revolutionary. I started reading it one night in the early evening and finished without interruption at 5am. I will read it many times before I fully understand it, not because it is difficult to read, but because it will take time to assimilate its meaning, especially since much of the meaning is carried in its design, accomplished by GIA’s brilliant Yolanda Duran. What’s it about? Just what the subtitle says, connecting to others through story. I see what Jordon is advocating in this book as remedy for the destruction caused by musicians’ envy as described and analyzed in The Musician’s Soul. It goes further, though. It could create a community of musicians in which music is allowed to work its full magic on the human spirit. I’m pleased to say that the volume also contains my poem New City on page 50. Recommended by Barbara Conable.

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To be honest, I thought I could predict the contents of this book. I thought I knew what it would say. Was I ever wrong!! Much of it surprised me, especially the part that analyzes and reveals the remedy for musicians’ envy, most poignantly what Jordon calls “envy of the perfect sound,” in which Jordon draws on the pioneering scholarship of Rene Girard. A growing number of musicians are setting about to change musical culture with regard to competitiveness, contempt, back-stabbing, judgment, rumor, and despair. This book should serve as their manual. Recommended by Barbara Conable.

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