This video for all of you who are planning to go to college or already there…
After you watch this video, investigate further how you can limit the amount of debt you
will accumulate during your college years.
It will be critical for your future!
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Student debt is exploding.
Chamber music… view from the inside.
What do you think this is:
it appears to be some wooden structure…. perhaps a stage…
Well…
it’s a guitar… looking from the inside.
Incredible vision of the PHOTOGRAPHER: http://WWW.MIERSWA-KLUSKA.DE FROM MUNICH
who took these pictures for the Chamber Music project of the Berlin Philharmonic -
“Closer to the classical chamber music of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.”
Here are couple of more:
Creativity at its best.
Bravo!
Mikhail Istomin
80/20 rule!
A few days ago I read an interview with the famed Russian ballet dancer,
Mikhail Baryshnikov, and one of his comments really made a lot of sense for me as a musician.
The dancers have to be relentless in shaping their bodies and minds in pursuit of the results they envision.
In the interview Baryshnikov said, “In dance you are trained to identify the wrong stuff and get rid of it: the line of your body, or a clumsiness of movement.”
Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff said that the first American astronauts had to possess the mindset and skills known as the right stuff to make it into the space program.
I love the notion from Mikhail Baryshnikov that if I get rid of the wrong stuff, the desired right stuff is what will remain!
Years ago I read about a business principle that helped sort out the good stuff from the bad..
It’s called the Pareto principle or the 80-20 rule and named after an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who back in 1906 noticed that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas!
Well… you might say… how is it relevant to me??
If you think about it you would probably agree with me that like Pareto, 20% of your daily activities produce about 80% of the real tangible results in developing your technique, musicianship etc..
In short, the “building blocks” of your music career.
And that’s the right stuff!
I suggest that you devote one hour per day for at least one week having a frank and honest discussion with yourself about what has become the wrong stuff in your practicing/playing/studying.
Whether in the world of dance or music, it all comes down to your personal vision and its clarity.
Another legendary artistic figure’s advice sends us down the same path as Baryshnikov.
Michelangelo said, “I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled ’til I set him free.”
Use this upcoming Summer to take your hammer and chisel to the wrong stuff!
Here are some of Baryshnikov’s amazing “flying” leaps…
MI
Wake up….earlier!
What Waking Up Just 1 Hour Earlier Can Do For You?
A common trait among successful people is their ability to get things done.
Successful people are not easily distracted and often say “no”
to anything and anyone who stands between them and
what’s important to them.
They never have excuses and are willing to do whatever it takes;
one of which is waking up earlier than most people.
There is a lot that can and should be done before checking your email or
wasting precious time on Facebook in the morning…
Here’s a short list:
Work out/exercise
Think
Read/Listen to positive messages
Plan/create your day, week
Do your first practice session of the day
You can do most or all of this and all you have to do is wake up just one hour earlier each day.
Sure, you may have to go to bed earlier and
maybe even miss your favorite T.V. show
but what really has T.V. done for your life???
There is plenty of time to do what is important.
All you have to do is give up what isn’t,
wake up just 1 hour earlier
and experience the most peaceful time of day.
Doing that will add 7 quality! hours to your week and a will give you a
strong feeling of progress and achievement.
Make it a habit and you will be far ahead of your competition!
MI
Unemployed young adults
A month ago, Zero Hedge reported that unemployment among Europe’s young adults has exploded
as a result of the European financial crisis, and peaking anywhere between 46% in the case of Greece
all they way to 51% for Spain.
Which makes me wonder what the reaction will be
to the discovery that when it comes to young adults (18-24) in the US,
the employment rate is just barely above half, or 54%,
which just happens to be the lowest in 64 years,
and 7% worse than when Obama took office promising a whole lot of change 3 years ago.
Now, how many among those young adults are musicians, dancers, artists?
It’s statistics hard to find, but I can tell you for sure that absolute majority of them were
not taught anything about finances, marketing,
“real life” survival skills to get through the tough economic times
and years of job searching process..
Here at ChamberMusicPro.com we are committed to help young musicians to acquire those necessary skills!
This year we added several new bonuses for 2012 Seminar participants –> HERE <–
Mikhail Istomin