by Greg Brown
Your shoulders are aching after sitting in the pit for three and a half hours; your neck is killing you, and you still have an hour to go for this club gig; you can barely pick up your bow because your elbow hurts so much; you have to learn that Chopin etude, but that burning feeling in your wrist is back again. You may have . . . begin suspense-movie dissonant music . . . a CTD! To find out what that is and how to treat it, read on.
Let me introduce myself. I have a M.M. from Boston University, played for 20 years in the USAF Band Washington DC and our own USAF Academy Band, and play bassoon regularly around town. My wife Nancy and I own Crystal Creek Music, and we do weddings and concerts on hammered dulcimer and oboe. A few years ago I added a new career direction to my life, and am just about to complete my associate