[musictlk] question about posture

[Kaiti Shelton]

Why not just adjust your music stand?

For choral music, if I don't have it memorized by the time of the
performance I'll flip my music stand around to work more like a desk.
I then raise the music stand to a comfortable reading height so it
looks more like a podium.  This looks much more presentable visually,
and allows me to read while staying in posture.

On 11/17/14, Kelsey Nicolay via musictlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> For concerts, we pretty much stand the entire time which is for
> about 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission.  Our director
> instructs us not to stand with locked knees which I totally
> understand.  However, because of my music stand, I feel like I'm
> almost squatting down when I'm standing.  Therefore, it feels
> very unnatural for me to stand the way our director has
> instructed us to.  What do you think about this issue? Is it ok
> to stand without bending the knees as long as they're not locked?
> Or how can I make it more comfortable and natural to stand like
> the director wants us to? This is the first choir where the
> director has ever made a big deal about this.  Even my private
> voice teachers haven't made a big deal about this posture
> component.
> Thank you,
> Kelsey Nicolay
>
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Kaiti