What do we have if not time? Musicians live and breathe time in many guises, constantly. Thinking about my immersion in the Brahms Horn Trio with natural horn and violin I am stunned at the stop-time aspect of having to listen to and account for every single tone, not just of this theme or that.
Every time the horn changes pitch it is as if a different word were being inflected by the most insightful singer. Having worked a lot with singers I know what that entails: nothing short of constant, open-minded attentiveness.
By taking the time to work at this level we give one another a gift of timelessness.
So what's the rush?
