Will's Practice Diary

Will Green Another beautiful piece by Blumenfeld. Thank you!

Will Green One of my favorite preludes :-) Thank you for posting.

Will Green I'm learning this right now! This is awesome!

Will Green this put a smile on my face. Thanks for posting. (And I'm glad you're alive, too!)

Will Green groovy! 

Will Green Love the drama!

Will Green Beautiful playing, as always. Thank you, Will! It's a joy to watch and hear you play. 

Will Green Octaves, octaves, and more octaves!

Will Green I read this yesterday, and have given it some thought. It seems that freedom, true freedom, is needed in order to die to yourself. To use a sport analogy - the basketball player who has practiced and studied and crafted his sport finds a freedom of this sort when he can go on the court and not just play the game, but become the game. All that is basketball has become such a part of him, that he IS basketball - and when this happens, it is glorious to watch as he seems to see everything, to feel everything, to be one with everything on the court when he plays. He has the freedom to just let himself be. 

Will Green I think that these detachments begin to happen when we allow ourselves to find the "art" in whatever human activity we engage in - music especially, but also dance, sport, etc... . True art being something that only beings with a rational soul can create (or sub-create!). Something within art allows us to forget ourselves and find a foretaste of the divine.