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pangaia

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16. I agree with you on this.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 09:36 PM
Mar 2018

Although I KNOW what you mean when you say "They're our farm team for the future." I understand that,
but...ummm.. I do not say things well...... OK,...very subtle thing...... they are not ours (and I don't mean to infer that you really mean they 'belong to us.' Of course not.). But, I also feel more strongly that they belong to themselves first. I think you probably agree..


Maybe I am coming from the place of....

Well, I know several quite brilliant young (early 30's) classical musicians who are making very successful careers for themselves in the world of international concertizing. One in particular. Aside from the pressures of always needing to perform at the very peak of her ability, there are management issues, constant traveling, the politics of this field, (To say nothing of the fact that everywhere she goes she has a 4-6 million dollar Stradivarius strapped to her back.)

Her life is made all the more difficult by everybody wanting 'a piece of her.' It must be exhausting, the constant pulling at her.

I first met her almost three years ago at a music festival in Portugal and the circumstances were such that she invited me to dinner- just she and I. She is that kind and gracious and unassuming woman. Since then, I have been very fortunate to have heard her all over the world and usually am able to go back stage and say hi and share a hug after the concert. I do not need any more. Just her music and her 'inner presence.'.

I often 'want' the whole world to know of her. She is that special, and the world will be the better for it. And one day the world will know. But, I would want more that she finds what SHE wants, what she needs, whether it is playing at the Concertgebouw, or in a mountain village in Mexico, or a school for blind children in Korea.

Maybe that is something of how I feel about Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg, and the other wonderful young people.

On the other hand, two of the three musicians of whom I speak are actually quite shy. I do not think Emma or David are shy one bit.

Eh, I am just different, a different drummer, always have been...


Maybe I'm just blowing smoke on a snowy night...












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