Sunday, July 31, 2005

VIOLIN PERFORMANCE IS AN ANXIETY CLASSIC

A man forced to perform on an unfamiliar instrument by his children's school principal has characterized his ordeal as "anxiety-producing".
The local resident is an experienced guitarist, but was completely unprepared for the task assigned to him by the principal: learning to play the Rolling Stones classic "Jumpin' Jack Flash" on the violin.
"I had exactly 24 hours to learn everything I needed to know in order to play it in a recital," the man told reporters. "It was a classic anxiety dream."