There are unique intrinsic values to each one of the arts. Of all the arts, music is the most abstract.
Music’s arrest on thought memory and emotion can be so indelibly fleeting that its ambiguities and pronouncements may linger in instances 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 and mode of expression that is transcendent for performer and audience alike.
This intimate awareness may inspire all of our practicing with focused commitment and 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