Soreness & Salonpas, Herbie Hancock, and a new numbers obsession

Sharon's Weekly Head Dump

I’m coming to you this week with incredibly sore shoulder and upper back muscles, because practicing this week got really big. In preparation for the concerto premiere in June (yipes!) I’ve started letting loose and working on the full-bodied sound you need to produce to be heard over a full orchestra, which translates to me really pushing into the pian…