Recently I was in contact with Dr. Dean FH Macy – CEO of New England Talent, Ltd. Having taught some big names such as Barbara Streisand, Dr. Macy has some interesting and very useful views on how to become a better performer!
Entries from July 2009 ↓
Interview with Meredith Ryan Packer after Carnegie Hall concert.
July 30th, 2009 — General info, Inspiration, techniques
#1 BEST SELLING new release!
July 25th, 2009 — General info, News
Performing in The Zone is now the #1 BEST SELLING new release over the past 30 days from publisher CreateSpace!
Performing in The Zone now on amapedia.com
July 23rd, 2009 — Interesting sites, News
Performing in The Zone is now listed on amapedia.com
http://amapedia.amazon.com/view/performing+in+the+zone/id=1032113
New record – Performing in The Zone #34 on amazon.com rankings!
July 20th, 2009 — General info, Interesting sites, News
Violin Lessons HQ
July 19th, 2009 — Interesting sites
Here is a very informative site by Eric Hill for violin students, and parents of violin students:
Performing in The Zone now listed on the ISBN database
July 17th, 2009 — General info
The ISBN database is a website which contains records on the majority of published books in the world. “Performing in The Zone” is now a part of that database!
Performing in The Zone – available on target.com
July 16th, 2009 — General info
“Performing in The Zone” can now be ordered at target.com
And is still of course available directly from amazon.com
Bibliography for Performing in The Zone
July 15th, 2009 — General info
Many years of work went into researching Performing in The Zone, which results in a rather substantial Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading list! Here is that list, directly from Performing in The Zone.
Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading
Books and articles:
Aaron, Stephen
Stage fright
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Alcantara, Pedro de.
Indirect Procedures –
A Musicians Guide to the Alexander Technique
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Alexander, F.M.
Bedre Brug af Sig Selv
(The Use of the Self)
Aarhus: Novis Publications, 1995.
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1985)
Ranked #69 in amazon category!
July 15th, 2009 — General info, News

On the 14th of July, “Performing in The Zone” made it to the top 100 books in the category: Health, Mind and Body => Self help => Success
Giorgio Grossi on stress
July 13th, 2009 — General info
Recently I was on a train trip from the west coast of Sweden to the east coast, and came across a very interesting article about stress in Kupé magazine – the Swedish railroad’s regular publication.
I’ve translated the article into English, as Giorgio’s comments on stress are extremely interesting to all people – but especially to us as performers.



