TBJ143: Brittany Lasch

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TBJ143: Brittany Lasch, Trombone Professor at Bowling Green State University on Covid recovery, Star Wars and Goal Setting. Brittany Lasch shared her incredible story about losing an Easter gig and getting Covid, a bad tradeoff.

LINKS

• https://www.brittanylasch.com/

• https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/faculty-and-staff/brittany-lasch.html

• https://www.astralartists.org/artist/brittany-lasch/

• https://michiganopera.org/

Easter Eggs

• Stomping children

• How’s quarantine going?

• Coming down with Coronavirus

• The toe thing

• Being a germaphobe and trying to spread the word

• Being exhausted for two months

• Ron Davis

• Gong Show

• Dealing with the symptoms while trying to teach at Bowling Green

• Lack of answers from the medical profession

• Star Wars and the guitar

• Still playing violin for fun from time to time

• Hearing the band director playing the Star Wars theme

• INXS

• Getting back in shape wit some advice from Jeannie Little

• Frasier

• Can’t sleep without practicing

• Andrew nearly having kidney failure at 12

• The mental component to dealing with quarantine

• Tackling a series of goals

• Practice challenges

• Playing with The US Army Band

• Dealing with nerves because of the livestream

• Playing Anthony Barfield’s “Red Sky” while getting notifications on her iPad

• Reliance on muscle memory

• Preparing for a solo performance

• Using visualization to help prepare for her performance

• Practicing walking on and bowing

• Playing in an opera orchestra

• Studying with Stepen Norrell

• Opera conductors

• The difference between playing in a section in s symphony orchestra vs. and opera orchestra

• Plans for a solo CD

• Being both accomplished and interesting

• Being the first brass player on Astral Artists’ roster

• The challenge of doing lots of gigs in a concentrated period of time

• Dream post-quarantine gig

• Mark Piker

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