Barry Green served as principal bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony
for twenty-eight years. Currently the principal bassist with the
California Symphony and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and active
as a bass soloist and teacher, he teaches bass at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, and for the young bassist program of the
San Francisco Symphony Education Department.
Green has been performing for young audiences in schools in the Bay
Area, as well as performing bass workshops and concerts on tour. He
is also the author of The Inner Game of Music with W. Timothy
Gallwey and has written seven Inner Game of Music workbooks for
keyboard, voice, instruments, and ensembles. He conducts Inner Game
seminars throughout the world. He lives with his wife in Oakland,
California.
For information on Green’s personal appearances and publications,
please contact his website at www.innergameofmusic.com and
www.themasteryofmusic.com.
“In his newest book, Barry Green has provided the glorious
counterpoint of musical discovery, mentorship, and visionary styles
of learning from some of the greatest
performers of our time. The Mastery of Music fills us with
inspiration, vision, and potential for better listening, enjoyment,
and nourishment.”
Don Campbell, musician and author of The Mozart Effect
Green (coauthor with W. Timothy Gallwey, The Inner Game of Music) attempts to inspire musicians to achieve not just technical competence but true mastery in the broadest sense by pursuing ten attributes of character (e.g., courage, discipline, and tolerance) that he arrived at after many years of observing musicians at work. He then applies these attributes to different kinds of musicians (e.g., low bass instrumentalists have fun, singers' egos need to deal with humility), interweaving tips from interviews with musicians, New Age philosophy, and his own experience as a professional contrabass player into narratives of wisdom. Green is no gifted prose stylist, but his desire to help practicing musicians excel is sincere; people who gained from his earlier work and from books that he recommends-including those by Don Campbell (e.g., The Mozart Effect), W. Timothy Gallwey (The Inner Game of Tennis), and James Redfield's The Celestine Prophesy-will welcome this. Recommended to libraries where such books circulate well.-Bonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"In his newest book, Barry Green has provided the glorious
counterpoint of musical discovery, mentorship, and visionary styles
of learning from some of the greatest
performers of our time. The Mastery of Music fills us with
inspiration, vision, and potential for better listening, enjoyment,
and nourishment."
Don Campbell, musician and author of The Mozart Effect
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