08.49
"Discipline & The Act Of Music": what better place to reflect upon this than a Guitar Craft course?
The insight I was granted last Friday continues to percolate and resonate, and I'm beginning to have a sense of some of its implications. Briefly, and essentially, the insight is the basis for the talk. Rather than sift through a mass of the available information which is already in draft, I have been given something that I may present with my own voice. This has the connection which accompanies parents & their children. The children don't belong to us, but we have a responsibility to them. And then, having done the best we can to bring them into the world, and prepare them, we send them into the outside world with our love; and let them find their own way. Our responsibility is to bring them into the world, and to let them go. We can't, and shouldn't, control the direction they take.
This is the work of any person working in a creative way: to construct a vehicle that becomes a bridge between the available qualitative, and the possible quantitative. The repercussions of that are beyond us. But if we act rightly, we will be able to manage those repercussions.
13.37
At lunch The Hernan Nunez String Quintet, formed and directed by Marcello, played a Marcello piece. Maude sung, a cappella, Steve Ball's "Green Thumb".
Tom Redmond introduced a new performance ensemble: Project H. This might be described as an orchestral version of the Hell Boys' Greatest Hit: "The Chord From Hell". Gaucho aphorisms were invited to describe this performance. Suggestions included:
They may be ugly.Project H will soothe your itching.
Life is often desperate and always hopeless.
The adoption of incompetence in a field of ignorance.
23.30
Dessert at dinnertime defeated me: this is a rare accomplishment. Hernan offered me a second "spare" dessert that I declined, full of the first glutinous pudding. Hernan suggested a new Gaucho aphorism:
A long Q&A with Level One with L2 & KT in attendance. Then, a performance challenge for Level One, with performance groups selected by The Hat. The Hat makes wonderful choices. All the students write their name on a piece of paper which is then put into The Hat. Often in Europe this is the hat worn by David Bowie on his European "Serious Moonlight" tour, which was given to Hernan Nunez, security person on the tour. This evening the hat was Hernan's but lacked the provenance. It also came with earflaps.
"Define the aim simply, clearly, briefly, positively"
