Position:Home>Performing Arts> For senior musicians: What have you lost to age?

I am not a senior musician, but I can tell you some things that my professors have lost to age: eyesight, conducting dexterity, and some repetitive stress injuries.

I have a few professors who have trouble seeing conducting scores, and their conducting gestures get so stiff it's hard to follow them, especially when their face gets buried in a score.
Some of my professors switch glasses before performing, usually to a type of reading glasses that allow them to sit it on the bridge of their nose to watch the music and the conductor.
Repetitive stress injuries--this one I have already and I'm in my 20s. Bursitis, carpal tunnel, tendonitis, muscle spasms, etc. I have bursitis and I've gone through 6 months of physical therapy.


However, what they've gained is this amazing ability to shut off the outside world and complete engage themselves in the music without nerves getting in the way. My professors can take the most dull, boring line and create an emotional rollercoaster of music out of it.

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I don't remember. Can you hum a few bars?

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whatsitoya

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Nothing..... look at Stephane Grapelli...He was 80 yrs old and had the speed of a 30 year old and faster.
He mastered violin and could play it beautifully.

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