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Article: An answer to performance anxiety: Don Greene.(2009 Conference Artist)
- Article from:
- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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MTNA Conference attendees would likely expect the keynote speaker to come from a musical background. However, the 2009 conference in Atlanta holds a surprise. Keynote speaker, Don Greene, Ph.D., dramatically diverges from that expectation with a most unlikely background and perspective, yet he offers a very important message for performing musicians--a message that began to form when he was a young man on his high school diving team.
Greene was intrigued and confounded by how performance fears and anxiety could cause him to miss even the easiest dives after nailing his toughest. Watching other divers experience the same he realized this was a common problem. He, ...