Caffeine | Ian Sidden

Made it a Month with No Caffeine

I made it a month with no caffeine! Did anything useful come from it?

One Month with No Caffeine

Beginning today (I wrote this on the 15th), I am taking an official month away from caffeine. No soda, no coffee, no tea, no Excedrin no Red Bull, no nadda.

Perform Fearlessly Part IV: The Day of the Performance

By this point of preparation, you can do little to fundamentally change your outlook on the nature of a performance. So your best bet is to set up conditions so that you are in peak shape to perform even if you still have lingering worries.

Get enough sleep the night before.

Weekly Gathering: July 10-17

There were lots of good articles this past week! Perhaps there was some built up energy from the July 4 festivities.

Pianist and scholar Robert Levin speaks at Curtis Commencement on May 16, 2009. If you click on nothing here, you must listen to this if you are a classical musician. It