Archive for June, 2009

A Gem of a Picture

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

It is always amaz­ing to me how every indi­vid­ual brings their own unique sparkle to the expe­ri­ence of music.  I mean, you can sit down thirty peo­ple in a room, give each of them a sheet of paper and a box of crayons, put on some music for them to hear, and say “Lis­ten closely, and draw what it sounds like…”.…  And despite the fact that all hear the exact same music in the same room at the same time, and all have the same col­ors of crayons, each per­son comes up with a totally dif­fer­ent and pre­cious gem of a pic­ture!  Now, isn’t that kind of remark­able?
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