Found a perfect starting point for a posting, but not enough time to write. In today's New York Times. The subject is not music, but message is no less important for us.
Toward the bottom of the first page:
...the students who are the commercial stars of their class today will not generally turn out to be the artists remembered tomorrow. These anointed stars are much less likely to mature... they get sidetracked and confused and are not giving themselves time to grow and develop.
Family weekend - parents visiting, daughter home from college. Back to the blog in a few days.
There's a thread on http://www.nfcs.net that talks about a lot of the same things you just mentioned. It's titled "Having it coached out of you- a new topic."
ReplyDeleteCheck it out- there's some really interesting ideas there.