At That Time You Were Scared
At that time you were amazed, “scared” but when you practice the same music score you don’t think it’s so awesome and I thought of the “Air on the G string” of Bach. The choir singing it sounds even better. And there are Mozart’s “Ave Verum”, Stainer’s “God So Loved The World” and Mozart’s “Abendempfindung”. Not many celebrated choirs, artists were really singing it very well. Especially of music within our reach, which we could judge. That’s what I said to my organist and he agreed.
Certainly are they far above us. They have an orchestra, professional musicians, singers. They perhaps just need a week to exercize “Die Jahreszeiten” of Haydn. We would need four years or more to perform it.
But we are proud and enjoy that little bit we know, we’re capable of, though only with an electronic organ, aged amateur singers. Is it disrespectful that I, who have never had formal music lessons before, have such irreverent thoughts?
That’s what the Choir Conductor told me.
And I thought of teachers or professors who were so scaring, proud to be called “killers”.
Sure, they almost every day lecture, read, study the same subject, it isn’t a wonder that they became very expert, but suppose they should learn some thirty other subjects they don’t like, I don’t believe they would be very clever. “Let them climb a coconut tree or have a thread pass through a needle.” comments si upik.
It would be very conceited of teachers, professors to think, believe there are stupid pupils whenever they got low grades, do not pass the tests, exams. They, anyone could learn whatsoever, any subject they like, even more than what they ever had learned at school, studied at the university if they wanted to, spend their life time enjoying it and perhaps even surpass their teachers, professors.
August 2009
