Volume
1 Number 8
Musicians
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Regular
Features
Editorials, The Garlick Report, In All Directions (8 pages),
Stories of FM, Mis Direction, Book Reviews, CounterPoint (letters),
Viewpoint, Friends of Alexander.
Articles
In This Issue
Playing in
a Symphony - Evangeline Benedetti
Butterfly Soup - Vivien Mackie
How to Play Beethoven - Mark McGee
Stage Fright - Ulfried Tölle
Conceptions & Misconceptions - Nelly Ben-Or
Blessed Helicity - Troop Mathews
What the Fossils Tell Us - Professor Phillip Tobias
The Cortical Function of Attention - Dr David Garlick
Friends of Alexander: Dr. Stewart McKay Part I - Margaret Long
ViewPoint - Robert Rickover
Flying with Farrar - Kri Ackers
Letters of Woe - Mis Direction
Engelberg Congress - Greg Holdaway
Alexander Goings On - Ria Nottle
Medical Mischief: Carrington recalls FM - John Brown
Asia - Greg Holdaway
Book Reviews - Mr Rogers
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Vol 1 Number 3 - [Raymond Dart]
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Abstracts
of Articles In This Issue
Issue
Editor Vivien Mackie
"Playing in a
Symphony"
Under Bernstein's watchful eye, Evangeline Benedetti, a member of
the New York Philharmonic quickly learnt how to put Alexander's discoveries
to practical use.
"Butterfly Soup"
Vivien Mackie, a long-time student of Pablo Casals, learnt to surrender
into the music,
creating it moment by moment, so that it emerges transformed and released
from unnecessary constraint.
"How to Play
Beethoven"
Alexander's discoveries merge with elemental music powers to sweep away
author
Mark McGee's deep-rooted delusions about how to play Beethoven.
"Stage Fright"
Ulfried Tölle discovered that active inhibition of reaction relies
upon acceptance of our fears.
Learning how to perform in daily living can teach us how to live inside
of performing.
"Conceptions
& Misconceptions"
Nelly Ben-Or, a concert pianist & AT teacher, sorts the wheat from the
chaff
dispelling some common myths and fantasies about Alexander's application
to music making.
"Self Help Alexander"
Robert Rickover looks at what you do when lost on a distant isle:
with a book, mirror and enough perseverance, Alexander work can be pursued
alone.
"Blessed Helicity"
Ever heard of the double helical structure of our muscualture? Not in
any anatomy book but here,
based on Raymond Dart's observation, Troop Mathews explores the spirals
that integrate our movement system.
"Man the Tottering
Biped: Part III - What the Fossils Tell Us"
How fossils are used to investigate and used to infer the evolutionary development
of bipedalism
(two-footed stance) is explained in this, the third of Professor Phillip
Tobias's five part series.
"Garlick Report:
The Cortical Function of Attention"
Despite having no training as a physiologist, Alexander developed quite
sophisticated ideas.
Dr Garlick explores two aspects: how attention functions in a movment system
and the function of muscle fibres.
"Friends of Alexander:
Dr. Stewart McKay Part I"
Scholar, doctor, surgeon, author, bon viveur, indefatigable worker - Margaret
Long writes that
Alexander was very lucky to have Dr McKay as his mentor, friend and referee
for the FM's move to London.
"ViewPoint"
by Robert Rickover
"The ear builds, organises and nourishes the nervous system"
wrote Alfred Tomatis -
a man whose life and discovery parallels much of Alexander's own. His discovered
is reviewed.
"CounterPoint
- Letters to the Editor"
More on FM's rascism from Riki Alexander and a letter refutting critisism
of John Wynhausen's article in VIN4 "The Head at the End of It's Tether"
from Alfred Flechas
Related
Material
DIRECTION
Vol 1 Number 3 - [Raymond Dart]
DIRECTION Vol 1 Number 10 - [Dance]
DIRECTION Vol 2 Number 3 - [Voice]