my piano teacher once told me that music is a scapegoat for when we can't describe how we feel and that music is essentially what feelings "sound like". i have carried this quote in my head ever since then and i apply it to anything musical that i happen to come across. almost always, this statement makes a lot of sense. i see my fellow orchestra musicians when they play solos or when we all play together and their sense of passion and emotions work very well with the piece we are playing. or i see my friends singing or dancing to music and their emotions match what they are doing as well. today, this statement fails me. it is so ridiculously mind-boggling that i am still scratching my head as to how...
(i literally stared at my computer screen for 10 minutes and i have no words to describe how i feel).
taking this statement into consideration for the concert i went to today, i can honestly say that i have no idea what these performers must have been feeling. pitchy? out of tune? or just plain ugly? trust me, my brutal list can go on and on. i will spare you the gory details but the gist of it is, by the end of this concert, my ears were bleeding, my brain was melting, and my eyes were tearing up (not out of joy or sadness, more like when you are peeling onions and the pain is unbearable). what a mind-numbing experience.
