Making Time for Making Music: How to Bring Music into Your Busy Life

by Amy Nathan | Entertainment |
ISBN: 0190611596 Global Overview for this book
Registered by litrajunkie of Pretzfeld, Bayern Germany on 6/25/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by litrajunkie from Pretzfeld, Bayern Germany on Monday, June 25, 2018
Way back in spring 2016 I filled out a questionnaire and provided some clues for further reading to the author, thus winning a free copy of this book. After more than two years of intensive research and writing, the work was released recently and my copy arrived last Thursday. Due to a BC outage on Friday, I couldn't register it right away, but today I succeeded. I'm really looking forward to reading this book. My first impression is that it will be very motivating, I love the layout and the way the author presents the information. An extensive bibliography as well as a list of online resources makes the information easily accessible, as does the index on the last pages of the book.

Blurb
Making Time for Making Music can help adults make music part of their lives. The first book of its kind, it is filled with real-life success stories from more than 350 adults who fit music-making into their jam-packed schedules. Their testimonies prove who that you are never too old to learn to make musi, and that there are numerous paths to explore. Featuring advice from dozens of musi educators, health-care professionals, and music researchers, this book offers inspriation and tried-and-true strategies for anyone who wishes to return to music-making or begin anew.

AMY NATHAN, an amateur pianist and choral singer, is an award-winning author of nonfiction books for adults and youg people, including The Music Parents' Survival Guide: A Parent-to-Parten Converation and The Young Musician's Survival Guide. A graduate of Harvard with masters' degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Columbia's Teachers College, she is the mother of two musical sons. www.AmyNathanBooks.com

Journal Entry 2 by litrajunkie at Pretzfeld, Bayern Germany on Monday, September 24, 2018
As one of the 441 members of the Advice Panel, i.e. the volunteers who filled out an online questionnaire of 51 questions, reading the finished book was a very welcome reward (a free copy was the prize for taking part in the survey), since it was a parallel to the topic of the book: how a meaningful whole is created from the contributions of many.

From this book, (wannabe) amateur musisicians can learn that there is only one unpardonable mistake: dithering. If you want to make music, you can, and the time to (re-)start is NOW. Never will you be younger, healthier, more enthusiastic etc. pp. After you've (re-)started your musical activities, you will be sorry for each day you let go by while mulling about things like: am I good enough? Can I afford the expense in time and money? Will my contribution be appreciated?

Condensing the vast amount of heterogenous material and "gel" it into such a practical, readable book of encouraging advice must have been a truly herculean task. Each chapter consists of a number of topical hints and tips, quotations, photographs and so-called "close ups", i.e. musical biographies in a nutshell of key Advice Panel members, with emphasis on their achievements. An extensive list of reference material and other sources of information, both online and offline, complete the book. Reading it has given my practice morale a much-needed boost, since it had been dragging in the dust of a long, hot, and extremely dry summer.

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