| Bridge of Sighs?
TMers,
I’m pondering repertoire for my students this afternoon but I’m really thinking about Venetian foot-bridges (yes. . . I’m obsessed).
Do you see a bridge as an obstacle—as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other—or do you see them, as a true musician does, as transitions?
Repertoire can be viewed as a series of foot-bridges. We go over each piece that we choose to play slowly. It is part of our personal rhythm—a link between two parts of our own musical theater, like changes in scenery, or like the progression between Act One and Act Two. Our role changes as we pass through each new piece. We cross from the reality of one language to the next, from one technique to another. Each becomes a necessary portal to the next level of our musicianship.
Choose your repertoire carefully, my friends. Don’t cross the same bridge endlessly.
Thus endeth the afternoon lesson.
Peace,
EC
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