{"product_id":"a-soprano-on-her-head-rightsideup-reflections-on-life-and-other-performances-9780911226218","title":"A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ristad, Eloise. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780911226218.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Foreword, by Lorin Hollander, concert pianist)\nEloise Ristad deals here with complex problems which torment and cripple so many of our most creative and talented people, and she does so with compassion, wisdom, and wit. The problem of stage fright, for instance, is a suffering of epidemic proportions in our society, and involves modalities of thought and projections that rob spontaneity and enthusiasm in artistic performance.\nThose interested in creative education have long felt that an entirely new, holistic and nurturing process of allowing individuals to discover and express themselves is needed if our educational system is to avoid the neuroses and creative blocks of the past generation. This book illuminates through its conversational style the destructive inhibitions, fears, and guilt experienced by all of us as we fail to break through to creativity. This story is told to me day after day in conservatories and college campuses around the world. Indeed I felt at times that she was telling of my own most petty and debilitating fears.\nBut what is important, A Soprano on Her Head supplies answers and methods for overcoming these universal psychological blocks--methods that have not only been proven in her own studio, but which trace back through history to the oldest and wisest systems of understanding the integration of mind and body. The work bears scrutiny both scientifically and holistically.\nThis is a wonderful book. Read it. You are not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Real People Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45253767921717,"sku":"ByrdShop_0911226214","price":27.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780911226218_7dba8561-d372-4a49-8292-707a2b4a934d.jpg?v=1779947052","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-soprano-on-her-head-rightsideup-reflections-on-life-and-other-performances-9780911226218","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}