Topic: music
Music is the universal language, we say. And it is. When you are listening to it or creating it, at least.
Everyone can enjoy music. Believe it or not, everyone has within them the capacity to create it, too--though it may be a lot more work for some than others.
Yet if you want to really understand it, that's a lifetime's work. Very quickly I can start using words and terms or concepts that I understand or that I may just be realizing as I try to figure out for myself and my students just why something fits together and how it all works to sometimes make music. While at other times a student or a teacher have the equal dilemma of producing unintended, unwelcome noise.
In my case, as a piano teacher, it's about learning how to touch the keys "just right" to develop what takes the player and the listeners into a sense of ecstasy--that's the art of it.
Just as in living, sometimes I achieve it. Sometimes I don't.
Sometimes I succeed in communicating in a language that is on the level of my student. Sometimes I'm still working to understand the language myself, while learning from my students.
Or readers, when it comes to this site.
