The Possibilities in a Moment
Yesterday Tania and I visited with friends. Being music lovers they asked me to play.
Now, just to give you some context, we’d gotten together to do a little planning for a seminar on ‘prosperity thinking’, which will be conducted in Asheville next month by a very wise fellow named Peter Ragnar.
Our conversation had rather a philosophical bent to it – we’d just been musing on how one’s thoughts tend to become one’s reality. An interesting notion, to say the least.
After a few moments reflection on this, I was invited to play.
What came to mind was the 24th Caprice of Paganini. I had spent some time on it that morning, and thought I would test myself in this impromptu performance.
What I was not expecting, as I presented the theme, was how our conversation would inform and transform all that followed.
As I began moving through the variations I was struck at how each represented an entirely new and unique possibility that could emerge from the theme.
If the theme was seen as a moment in time, the variations were aural representations of the infinite possibilities that could spring from it.
Feeling that freedom as I moved from one to the next gave my performance a freshness and spontaneity that was quite remarkable.
The ‘colors’ and moods we all enjoyed could not have been calculated ahead of time. All I found myself doing was surrendering to moment, and going with the flow.
It also reminds me of Louis Pasteur’s famous line, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’
Well, I got myself prepared – as much as one can in an hour or so – yesterday morning. Then I allowed ‘chance’ to work its magic.
To get yourself prepared for a lifetime of violinistic possibilities add ”Kreutzer for Violin Mastery” to your library. You’ll absolutely love the results.
All the best,
Clayton Haslop
Now, just to give you some context, we’d gotten together to do a little planning for a seminar on ‘prosperity thinking’, which will be conducted in Asheville next month by a very wise fellow named Peter Ragnar.
Our conversation had rather a philosophical bent to it – we’d just been musing on how one’s thoughts tend to become one’s reality. An interesting notion, to say the least.
After a few moments reflection on this, I was invited to play.
What came to mind was the 24th Caprice of Paganini. I had spent some time on it that morning, and thought I would test myself in this impromptu performance.
What I was not expecting, as I presented the theme, was how our conversation would inform and transform all that followed.
As I began moving through the variations I was struck at how each represented an entirely new and unique possibility that could emerge from the theme.
If the theme was seen as a moment in time, the variations were aural representations of the infinite possibilities that could spring from it.
Feeling that freedom as I moved from one to the next gave my performance a freshness and spontaneity that was quite remarkable.
The ‘colors’ and moods we all enjoyed could not have been calculated ahead of time. All I found myself doing was surrendering to moment, and going with the flow.
It also reminds me of Louis Pasteur’s famous line, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’
Well, I got myself prepared – as much as one can in an hour or so – yesterday morning. Then I allowed ‘chance’ to work its magic.
To get yourself prepared for a lifetime of violinistic possibilities add ”Kreutzer for Violin Mastery” to your library. You’ll absolutely love the results.
All the best,
Clayton Haslop
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