{"id":12452,"date":"2012-09-10T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2012-09-10T04:03:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T09:03:14","slug":"dr-sharon-mabry-to-read-from-new-book-at-austin-peay-autumn-salon-event-september-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/10\/dr-sharon-mabry-to-read-from-new-book-at-austin-peay-autumn-salon-event-september-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sharon Mabry to read from new book at Austin Peay Autumn Salon event September 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"APSUClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Throughout Dr. Sharon Mabry\u2019s 35-year singing career, she has rushed through airports to make connecting flights, slept in small, cavernous hotel rooms, performed on stages with inadequate acoustics and dealt with the stress of lost luggage.<\/p>\n

Those trials mark the typical, yet unglamorous, side of any professional musicians career, and for many, those obstacles are more than they can handle. But, for the truly gifted, singing can be such a rewarding a career, which is why Mabry, an Austin Peay State University professor of music, set out to write her new book, \u201cThe Performing Life: A Singer\u2019s Guide to Survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Sharon Mabry to read from new book \u201cThe Performing Life: A Singer\u2019s Guide to Survival.\u201d at Autumn Salon event September 24th.<\/p><\/div>\n

The book, which is now available in bookstores and online, offers valuable advice along with little vignettes culled from Mabry\u2019s career as an award-winning professional singer.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh how I wish I had had this book as a young singer,\u201d Dr. Carl Swanson, associate editor of the renowned Journal of Singing, said. \u201cDr. Mabry has used a wonderful mix of practical advice and memoir to underscore her astute insights into the minefield we call performance. Every performer should read this \u2018performance bible\u2019 before beginning a career and whenever faced with new challenges in that career. Thank you, Dr. Mabry, for enlightening us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 7:00pm on September 24th, Mabry will give a reading of her new book at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center as part of the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts\u2019 Autumn Salon Series. The Center hosts the Salon Series once a month, featuring distinguished local artists and arts organizations, followed by refreshments and good conversations. The Mabry reading is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cReality TV tries to convince us that anyone can make it big and become famous,\u201d Christopher Burawa, Center director, said. \u201cThat perception, however, is an illusion, and greatly distorts what it means to follow and develop a craft. Being an artist, to paraphrase poet Marvin Bell, is a way of life and not a career. No where is that better expressed than in Sharon Mabry’s new book, \u2018The Performing Life.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the last three decades, Mabry has performed across the globe as a highly sought after recitalist and soloist with symphony orchestras. She took a diary with her on all her travels, and the insights and obstacles she experienced, scribbled in those pages, inform much of her new book.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that diary, I wrote about the problems I had \u2013 the logistical problems, the health issues, all kinds of venue problems with acoustics, heating, cooling, dresses,\u201d she said. \u201cWith this book, I wanted to let people see that even in the worst of times, if you have a plan, if you\u2019re prepared mentally, if you\u2019re prepared logistically with a support system, you can get through it. But you have to have those sorts of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book is infused with her notorious sense of humor. The result is both an informative career manual and an entertaining memoir of three decades in the business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWarm, personal and humorous, this book is a must read for those singers who think they want a performing career,\u201d Judith Carman, a music reviewer for the Journal of Singing, said.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the Center at 931.221.7876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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