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<DIV><FONT size=4>How can you memorize? If you're playing from memory,
where do you look? If I were in the audience, it would spook me out to see
someone playing and looking at me the same time. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>My repertoire is memorized, so I play from memory except for
band and opera parts, and a few things I use for wedding
ceremonies.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I think it is a much more effective performance if the player
is looking at their instrument and not sitting and reading off music, no matter
what instrument it is. It's distracting, and you wonder how many more
pages there are.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Syl</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>