tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post4357874496952228950..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Reasons for Being a MusicianElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-80870801038321510192017-08-06T10:35:28.714-05:002017-08-06T10:35:28.714-05:00Thank you so much for this beautiful comment.Thank you so much for this beautiful comment.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-87930190695903830512017-08-06T09:52:31.618-05:002017-08-06T09:52:31.618-05:00Elaine - so long since I left a comment here, but ...Elaine - so long since I left a comment here, but I read and enjoy all your posts. You always give me something to THINK about.<br /><br />I sang in a concert yesterday - the final event in a week-long choral festival. The singer had had a wonderful week making music and learning together, reveling in the beauty AND in the sweet challenge of mastering some knotty passages. "Sweet" because the rewards are, as you say, far more than just finding a solution to a problem. When the challenge is mastered, it's like climbing over a cumbersome threshold to find ourselves in a new realm of beauty, one that can be attained only by struggling over that threshold. And the concert itself, where we presented our week's worth of learning and reveling, was marvelous - the people in the audience were clearly moved and delighted and full of joy as the music filled them up with beauty, and for an hour or so life was perfect. THAT's what music-making is - a constant seeking of beauty and perfection. Practicing is seeking. Rehearsing is seeking. Performing is seeking. Sometimes the beauty is found in the practice, sometimes during rehearsal, and sometimes it bursts forth in performance, especially during those magic moments when you KNOW you are creating something sublime, and you KNOW that your listeners are right there with you. That's why we are musicians (and listeners) - to seek, and sometimes to attain, that perfection of beauty.<br /><br />Your post moved me deeply.peregrinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310871394184407035noreply@blogger.com