The life of a musician is very different from how it may appear in the collective imagination. If you think about the lives of the artists we imagine them lost in their own world of dreams, surrounded by colleagues whimsical, full of irrepressible desire to express their emotions to the outside world. The days marked by concerts, shows, post-concert dinners in exotic and refined ... a bohemian life, but with a fair compensation, not excessive, but in the end, the musician is expected to play enough to be satisfied.
We were wrong. There is no category
calculator and more controversial musicians. They are not willing to be overdriven even a minute Time set for testing and the cachet is the only thing at which they are truly interested. Better than 10 evenings well-paid to play the mazurkas "Sagra della Porchetta" a free concert at the Metropolitan, so to speak. And so the concerts are often identified with the agreed amount, creating conversations in the surrealism, such as "Were you at the concert last month from 75 Euro?" "No, but I have called the 100 in the same orchestra where we played last year at 80. " And amazingly all know that we are talking about concerts!
should also be noted, however, that except for those few lucky bands that belong to stable, usually the main activity consists of musicians from so-called "tricks", concerts of little artistic value that are only intended to gain some money (few actually). In these cases musicians often are subjected to grueling marathons, uncomfortable bus journeys with you come home at unreasonable hours, travel halfway around the world and back in the day ... all for small sums of money, stuff it in a week earns much pizza carrier more than a month of concerts in prestigious locations.
All the great satisfaction of parents, faced with the successes of the children are willing to turn a blind eye to the possibility of having to keep for life. Often the cost of travel to test sites or on the concert are much higher than the amount earned, as he said my father, in front of the nth loan for living expenses and accommodation during an important concert with my major orchestra, ruled, "Since we work costs a lot! It was better when you were unemployed. "
Another myth to debunk is that of the dinners. Are now increasingly rare occasions when you on the occasion of concerts are also offered a hearty meal, or at least a sandwich.
Usually the type of meal is divided into:
pre-concert buffet Skinny with pretzels, focaccia and the like ... What need is your name written on the plastic cup, the game of the bottle and the Giocajouer to get you back with the mind the party of the medium, except that there was at least hoping to catch ...
Trash-prepared organization and provided the musicians with launches from a van in charge, such as the distribution of food of the blue helmets, but they usually do in the third world are more dignified than the hungry musicians. The scenes are so pitiful, not to mention that often do not know where to eat lean, so you can see the desperate camped out in the street, sidewalk, on the ground, while trying unsuccessfully to eat a sandwich of two days filled with old musty cheese .
-Rich buffet after the concert. If this might seem the best solution is often a trap in what is usually open to the public, who, at a time when the musician came out on stage, it was changed and has reached the room of the buffet, you have already brushed everything in no time at all. Then there is the "little old lady factor." The more avventrici are elderly and veneered and eat more! And usually unwillingly leave the station that you have earned so you should try to reach the buffet or physically eliminate them or to perform in contortions on the edge of the impossible. All elements that make you go hungry again until they see what's on the table. Usually I just look to give up the inevitable form of grain in which anyone who delves into, something that causes me nausea instant, enough to make me abandon the idea of \u200b\u200bdinner without much remorse.
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