02.26.08

Orchestrated

Posted in 2008 Potpourri at 5:07 am by Miracle ♪♫

A few hours ago, a Filipina viewed a live coverage
of a Jewish-American conducting an American orchestra as they performed
works by German, American, and Czech composers for a Korean audience.

In
other words, I recently watched CNN’s live broadcasting of the New York
Philharmonic orchestra as they consummated Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 –
The New World Symphony, pieces of Brahms, Wagner, Bernstein, and
Gershwin at Pyongyang despite tense relations between the United States and North Korea. Lorin Maazel conducted the historic and monumental concert and they were rewarded with a very warm standing ovation. I was sincerely amazed by what I had witnessed – by what music can accomplish!

As scenes of the orchestra streaked across the television screen, I was reminded of our own beloved PPP. What
I miss most about playing with the orchestra is that venerable “A” we
all tune in to and play together before anything else. That very same “A” that builds up my adrenaline, the “A” that binds us.  Without that “A,” we all lose it, there cannot be a performance.

If
the nations of the world were different sections of the orchestra, I
can verily say that the world is out of tune! Isn’t it time we looked
up to our Conductor? He has been signaling for the “A” for quite a while now.

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