Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
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Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.
PAUL LATHAM and added
Just as there is no one instrument that is the sole, true embodiment of music, there is no hierarchy of traditions or practices. Who is to say that the violin is better or worse than the piano?
from Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide by Barry Magid
Rob Tourtelot added
- The cellist, composer, and conductor, Pablo Casals , on being unique:
“Each second we live in a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and will never be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them wha... See morefrom 3-2-1: On Seeing Opportunities, Originality, and the Magic of Books | James Clear by James Clear
Isaac Feldman added
- Leonard Bernstein’s Tanglewood sermon was intended to send the young musicians off with high hopes:
.. It's the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers, who will ultimately save us, who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams. Only the artists can turn the "Not-Yet" into reality. All right, how do you do it? L... See moreDonna Lowe added
What makes Jarvis’s story so heartening is its demonstration that these benefits of “obsessing” over quality don’t necessarily require that you dedicate your entire life to the blinkered pursuit of superstardom. Jarvis didn’t sell fifteen million records; he instead became, over time, good at core skills that were both rare and valuable in the part
... See morefrom Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Sarah Khalid added
“Let’s see how von Karajan’s 1975 recording of the second movement of the Seventh Symphony differs from his 1963 recording,” or “I wonder if the brass section of the Chicago Symphony is really better than the Berlin brasses?” Having set such goals, a listener becomes an active experience that provides constant feedback (e.g., “von Karajan has slowe
... See morefrom Flow: The Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Abhilash Rao added
- Einstein famously attributed some of his greatest physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed connected different parts of his brain in new ways.
from Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity by The Marginalian
Keely Adler and added
It takes a certain kind of strangeness to hear the cosmic symphony and to realize that it was both playing and listening to itself.
from Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 by Richard Powers
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