"This is not a book to read, it is a book to live. Bringing Music to Life can launch your courage, vision, and vitality." —from the foreword by Don Campbell, author of The Mozart Effect®
I am weeping a bit, Barry, after reading your book… What an amazing essay—so sensitive and real. Your quest and profound curiosity about life, art, nature, and the spirit is simply a triumph of ideas, research, and most of all kindness! Blessings and love to a great inspirational human." " —David Darling, Grammy-nominated cellist, director of Music for People
New insights from the author of the classic book, The Inner Game of Music!
World-class bassist and best-selling author Barry Green has spent his life learning and showing others how to bring music to life. In this innovative, imaginative text he shares what he has discovered since his groundbreaking book, The Inner Game of Music, inspired over 250,000 musicians to reach their potential in performance and learning.
Three distinct sections delve deeply into the methodology, techniques, and inspiration required to energize and enliven music making for amateurs and professionals alike. Green reaches inside to recount life-changing experiences and outside to friends and fellow musicians who have discovered how to create joy and excitement in performance.
A stimulating series of activities and reflections using YouTube video clips helps the reader take Green’s ideas and concepts off the page and put them into action. Imagine singing, conducting, playing, moving, and shaking with violinist Joshua Bell, Tito Puente (the king of Latin music), symphony conductors Leonard Bernstein and Gustavo Dudamel, and even soaring along with Martin Luther King, Jr. during his “I have a dream” speech!
Barry Green served as Principal Bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for twenty-eight years. As former Executive Director of the International Society of Bassists, he is currently directing a young bassist program for the San Francisco Symphony Education Department, teaches privately, and is the organizer of the Northern California Bass Club.
Principal Bassist with the California Symphony and the Sun Valley Idaho Summer Symphony and active as a bass soloist and teacher, Green is author of the book The Inner Game of Music with W. Timothy Gallwey, which deals with musicians reaching their potential in performance and learning and has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.
Additional information about Barry Green, his current activities, calendar of appearances, and more is available at http://www.innergameofmusic.com/