Music’s arrest on thought, memory, and emotion can be so indelibly fleeting, that its ambiguities and pronouncements may linger in instants undetected within present moments of timeless experience.
It may be the most beguiling and the most powerful of the arts.
Musicians have a uniquely vulnerable immediacy in mode of expression that is transcendent for performer and audience alike.
This intimate awareness may serve all of our practicing with focused urgency.
Indeed, amazement and wonder at the opportunity to participate in something so profound should inform our devotion to practicing and creating music anew.
– JC Heisler