In a statement the musicians reported reaching a two-year deal — relatively short by industry standards — in which, they said, management had dropped proposals for "drastic cuts to health insurance and a radical reduction in pension benefits".
On the average, the rock/jazz musicians reported higher control, lower stress and higher energy than a reference material of white-collar workers.
In an e-mail message to the Philharmonic's musicians reported by the Culture Monster blog of The Los Angeles Times (latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster), Mr. Dufour wrote that he had returned to Chicago to have shoulder surgery and apologized for "having left the season so abruptly".
About pain or discomfort, the musicians reported back discomfort "sometimes" with about 43.4%.
The rock/jazz musicians reported low stress and high degree of energy.
Although musicians reported the strong belief that strivers will achieve over naturals, their preferences and beliefs showed the reverse pattern: they judged the natural performer to be more talented, more likely to succeed, and more hirable than the striver.
On Long Island, in the laboratory of Lester Fehmi at Stony Brook, artist:: and musicians reported they could enter states of intense creativity by sustaining alpha.
When musicians reported having personal memories (e.g. "I've played this melody before"; "I learnt this excerpt during my formal musical training"), most of them also had associated mental imagery (e.g. "I can see myself playing this melody"), which was not the case for nonmusicians.
The musicians reported changed or impaired way of playing, difficulties in daily activities at home, in leisure time activities and in sleep as common consequences of musculoskeletal symptoms.
Approximately half (42%) of the QAP musicians reported regular use of reference tones, and in support of this claim, QAP musicians showed more accurate identification of the notes C, G, and A compared with all other notes during scanning (t11 = 2.474, P < 0.05), which was not evident for the AP group (Fig. 2 c ).
