We just finished
Kenny Werner’s
Fifth
Effortless Mastery Telewebinar
Last night = Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Kenny is such the “Musical Sage”
You will definitely want to be taking notes on this one.
Again, we had people literally from all over the world:
Jerusalem, Israel; Hamburg, Germany; Canada; Buenos Aires;
San Diego, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Philadelphia,
Colorado, Florida, California, etc.
How do you think it’s going?
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Thank You So Much … I really appreciate this. I was going to ask a question this time, but the thing is, the things I want to ask, are already being asked by other people, and even if these questions by the others, are not exactly my own, still, the way Mr. Werner replies to the questions, he really goes deep … so he starts of specifically with the question asked, and then develops the answers in a way that covers many other points apart from the ones raised …
Harmeet Manseta.
(SNIP) someone forwarded this to me.
And I wanted to ask about the psychological
impact of playing under such conditions,
as described below, especially when you know you are sounding great
and yet there is little, to no response from anyone.
It’s weird but is such situations I am able to play
better knowing that no one is really listening, or taking
me or my contributions seriously.
But afterwards, I often feel like giving up. Get very depressed,
my internal critics says well if you are as good as you think you are
you would be playing in Carnegie Hall, and here you are on the street.
So almost by definition “you are worthless”.
Have you ever been in many such situations?
And if so how did you handle it?
I wasn’t able to log in for the last session, but
I wanted to throw it out and see if I resonates
with other musicians.
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A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.
A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.
A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.
The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tagged him along, hurried but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.
In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever
written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.
Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?
One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written,
how many other things are we missing?
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