Inhaltsangabe
Revised edition of an acclaimed book, recently updated: A one-of-a-kind guide and reference for all concerned with pain in musical work: professional and amateur musicians, teachers and students, doctors and therapists,and players from jazzers to classical. This book is essential for all musicians. String,percussion,harp,brass and wind players, will play better and feel better.
Musicians face many challenges: a highly competitive environment,performance anxiety, demanding repertoire, years of solitary practice,endless repetiton and awkward postures. The hectic pace of rehearsals and performances when added to the mix often results in the very real risk of physical pain and injury.
Readers will learn how to protect themselves with suggestions for warming up and cooling down, stretching and strengthening, safe practicing,pacing,sensible choosing and set-up of instruments and rehabilitation and work hardening. Newly added is a chapter on hearing protection. Included also is an extensive resource guide listing what is available to help musicians including props, splints, orthotics, and tools, clinics, websites and books.
Playing (less) Hurt is filling an important need spurring more interest in the field of performing arts medicine and professional orchestras and teachers are becoming more proactive in working to prevent injuries.
Playing (less) Hurt is a comprehensive and readable guide full of sensible and valuable suggestions while being entertaining and humorous even for the youngest reader.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Janet Horvath, associate principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra for over two decades, is a soloist, chamber musician, writer and advocate for injury prevention. A trail-blazer in speaking and writing openly about physical stresses experienced by musicians, Horvath has contributed importantly to improvements in working conditions and in awareness for msucians' work-related ailments and their prevention.
Ms Horvath received the American String Teachers Association Service Award in 1992 in recognition of her outstanding efforts on behalf of musicians' health, and in 2001 she was selected to deliver the Richard J. Lederman keynote lecture at the Performing Arts Medicine Association's ninteenth "Annual Symposium on Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers". She has conducted seminars called "Playing (less) Hurt" all over the country including precedent-setting presentations for professional symphony orchestras most recently the Indianapolis Symphony, New World Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony and the Boston Symphony.
She has written extensively for National and International publications and has been featured in numerous newspaper articles and on National radio.
The "Injury Prevention Guide For Musicians" is the culmination of 20 years of learning and teaching in the field of Perorming Arts Medicine.
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