AFS Book Club
Host: Dr. Linda Bailey
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When and where is the next book club meeting?
Location: Wildflower
Seville Shopping Center (Across the street from Railroad Park)
Address: 7001 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2026
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am (may go longer)
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Tell me about this book club!
The AFS Book Club will meet 5 times from October through April to discuss flute, music history and helpful performance related books. There’s something for everyone! Flute topics, performance tips, humorous music history, and even a fictional book! What's even better, it's free for all AFS members!
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OK, I'm interested! How do I participate?
Read the AFS Book Club selected book (or a paragraph or a chapter) and come discuss the book. Haven’t read the book? Come and socialize with fellow AFS members! It’s casual and it’s fun… no rsvp required.
All book clubs need to have extra fun - in addition to discussing the book, there may be additional activities at a book club meeting. These activities will be short, appropriate for everyone and will be related to the book being discussed. The new book will be announced at the end of the previous AFS Book Club meeting and online.
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What book are we reading​​​?​
The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self​
by William Westney
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In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example, playing a wrong note can be constructive, useful, even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class® workshop also explores the special potential of group work, outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over.
Practicing, in Westney’s view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can (and should) meet with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide, which brings artistic vitality, freedom, and confidence within everyone’s reach.​
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The Perfect Wrong Note:
cost: $15.10 (paperback)
$14.34 (kindle)
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We’ll be meeting at a coffee place, so please be prepared to buy your own drink or snack. AFS wants everyone to be included - many of the books are available at libraries. Think about sharing a book with someone from AFS once you have finished reading it, or if you are able, buy an extra book to donate to the AFS library!
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Future AFS Book Club Dates
Note: the next book title will be announced at each meeting, as well as via email and media announcements from AFS:​​
April 18, 2026
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Past Book Club Meetings
