After Reaching 50, I Began To Wonder

Practicing Is Not Only Playing Your Instrument, Either By Yourself Or Rehearsing With Others - It Also Includes Imagining Yourself Practicing. Your Brain Forms The Same Neural Connections And Muscle Memory Whether You Are Imagining The Task Or Actually Doing It.

I Want To Investigate Different Cultures, To See How Their Identities And Values Affect Their Music. It's One Way I Can Get To Know Our World, At Least To A Certain Depth.

Music Has Always Been Transnational; People Pick Up Whatever Interests Them, And Certainly A Lot Of Classical Music Has Absorbed Influences From All Over The World.

Culture Opens Our Hearts To One Another. And The Currency In Culture Is Not Money, But Trust.

The Role Of The Musician Is To Go From Concept To Full Execution. Put Another Way, It's To Go From Understanding The Content Of Something To Really Learning How To Communicate It And Make Sure It's Well-received And Lives In Somebody Else.