Last weekend’s four
@nycpmusic performances are still with me. Golijov’s Ever Yours demanded an emotional clarity that left everyone a little exposed. I first heard parts of it at
@festivalhill.institute this summer, and the sound of that experience has stayed with me. With no recordings to rely on and a revised version so different from the original, everyone had to build the piece from the ground up. With
@cellorocks77 away,
@mcfayette stepped in with
@terrastringquartet , and I can only imagine the weight that added.
The Kreutzer program with
@stefanjackiwviolin taught me something. I doubted the arrangement at first, but I realized that what it becomes depends entirely on the performers. In the right hands, it offers a color and emotional shape that the piano version cannot, not as a replacement but as another path into the heart of the music.
All this was happening while I was thinking of
@sallyyangny running her first full marathon in Athens. She began the trip with an unexpected collapse on the plane and was already dealing with a knee injury, yet she pushed through everything and finished. Watching from afar filled me with worry, amazement, and relief.
I was also carrying some personal decisions that had to be made, and everything seemed to converge at once. Now that things have begun to clear, it feels like the tomorrow I doubted would come has quietly become today.
In the middle of all of this, these performances meant more than I expected. Everyone gave their all, and somewhere in that process the music helped me breathe again.
