Yesterday was not really a good day and I arrived at my lesson feeling rather fraught and frazzled. I was not really in the frame of mind for learning. We pressed on anyway.... through a slow Ferling study that needed quietness and calmness and controlled breathing, onto the Hindemith second movement with long, sweeping slow phrases followed by a chance to really go for it with fortissimos and accented notes. Then a sense of spaciousness and elegance with the start of Telemann's Fantasia no 7.
By the end of the lesson I felt like a different person and was ready to face "real life" again.
On a forum that I read, someone recently posed the question "Why Study Music?"
For me, this is why: it soothes my soul.
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