Description
About the Author
Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. is a graduate of The Juilliard School, The University of Michigan and The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The critically acclaimed author of Melodies of the Mind, she has drawn from over twenty years of multidisciplinary experience to shed light on performance anxiety as well as the important role of music in understanding a wide range of human emotions. She is also a regular contributor to Huffington Post and The Clavier Companion. She is in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Reviews
Nagel's book is an extremely helpful guide to encouraging my students to perform with confidence ... [The] volume is a very welcome addition to any personal library and will certainly help teachers and students understand the complex issue of performance anxiety. Highly recommended. * Clavier Companion *
A most important book that addresses the elephant in the room for virtually all performers. * Leon Fleisher *
Julie Jaffee Nagel's impressively detailed and valuable analysis of stage fright provides an indispensable guide for teachers, students, and professional musicians concerned with this all too common and often intractable problem. * Arnold Steinhardt, First Violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet *
Julie Jaffee Nagel has given us a beautifully organized and sympathetically written book that successfully addresses the issue of stage fright, a topic too often neglected, to the regret of the performer ... Students, teachers, parents, and performers of all types would do well to read it. * Joseph W. Polisi, President, The Juilliard School *
Utilizing her unique qualifications as a performer, pedagogue, and psychoanalyst, Nagel weaves essential psychological concepts, probing questions, insightful case studies, and practical suggestions into absorbing, easy-to-read guidebook on stage fright for musicians. This book should be required learning for everyone who teaches music lessons, or, as Nagel considers them, 'life lessons'. * Dr. Gary L. Ingle, Executive Director and CEO, Music Teachers National Association *
The well-organized, easy-to-read book is packed with sensible advice, insightful tips, and well-researched strategies. Its a must-have for any music teachers library. Thats what sets this book apartits not only for performers, its also for teachers of performers! ... it is a book that encourages deeper understanding of oneself, and the encouragement to make use of multiple options that are presented that can be helpful in reducing stage fright. The leitmotif throughout the chapters emphasizes that music lessons are life lessons. * Leila Viss *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190632038
Author Julie Jaffee-Nagel
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 259g
Dimensions(mm) 137mm * 206mm * 15mm