Many years ago I taught an unusually thoughtful child, about ten.
One day I asked her "When do you play loud?" "When it's important."
"And when do you play soft?"
.............(thinking......)
"When it's important."
Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
