Hands to pencil to paper; hands to keys. Chopin’s pencil to our hands at the instrument. Doesn’t that bring us into a kind of intimacy with the composer, as a person-at-the-piano just like us, a friend? And doesn’t that lend something rich and inspiring to our sense of connection, then, with the music itself? Also—look how those treble clefs swoop down perfectly just below the fourth line of the staff…
That was beautifully articulated and I am going to sharpen my pencil right now...! Thank you for directing my fingers from my computer to a deeper way of expressing the song of my heart.
That was beautifully articulated and I am going to sharpen my pencil right now...! Thank you for directing my fingers from my computer to a deeper way of expressing the song of my heart.