It is good to have a goal to prepare for and to get an idea of what other people are doing. We just can't take competitions too seriously. Winning one doesn't make a career, let alone a life. I'd like to return to the theme of love and care for music, which is evanescent yet transcendent, binding musicians of the present with the greats of the past, students to teachers, ourselves to each other. Musical performance ends with the last vibration, yet we as musicians carry the promise of music within ourselves.
Music goes beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond feelings, even beyond our individual selves.
We have to champion the necessity of that kind of aesthetic experience, which affects the quality of life. The Piano Education Page , Op. 5, No. 3, Copyright 2001 John M. Zeigler. Portions copyright 1995-2000 John M. Zeigler and Nancy L. Ostromencki. All rights reserved.