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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: At 75, my life in qin
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:17:17 -0500 (EST)
At 75, my life in qin http://www.alansondheim.org/life75qin.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/life75qin.mp3 I began at 11:39 to midnight, ended at 11:57. Qin music, and I was thinking, the last moment of a birthday which speaks of sadness, darkness, rupture. No matter what, this. So as to think through, in this music, that this is my life. Playing, I was aware of. And mono no aware of. Mind and hands together, not a wrong note. But my life. So a tag or label to leave behind. And I consider this an inspiration. Such delicate wood, strings. Such a moment as once in my life. This, this piece, interval, a summing-up. Or diminution before the fact. But a summing up. I cannot play better than this. I cannot do more than this. Guard this music with your life. It is guard music. It is what I have always felt and said, music is a problem. As am I.