What is luck? Is it being in the right place at the right time? I think it is something more. Luck is the active process of creating the life you want. So don’t just sit back and hope that good things will happen to you. Be courageous and go after what you want. Commit to your goal and visualize your success daily. Luck ‘happens’ when you are busy doing what you are meant to do, in order to make your dream come true. A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
Singh, Joginder (2005) For a Better Tomorrow. Diamond Pocket Books, p. 142
— John Burroughs (American naturalist and writer)
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The creative person
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all that there is to it. — Edward Albee, American playwright Kolin, Philip (ed.) (1988) Conversations with Albee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, p.35.
The art of whistlingIn mid-nineteenth century England, whistling was a common source of entertainment and as part of the general reception to a piece of music. An article in March 1854 in The Musical Times reported: We were sorry to hear the vile practice of whistling again carried on to some extent at the concert; were the well-meaning […]
Love Came Down At Christmas (piano)Title: Love came down at Christmas Text: Christina Rossetti Composer: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Piano solo Product medium: PDF score Related products: – Love came down at Christmas – SATB and piano – Love came down at Christmas – Piano solo (MP3) hase_link id=”1673″ text=”Purchase” style=”button” color=”blue”] Samples:
Golliwog’s Cakewalk from Children’s Corner Suite (Debussy)Title: Golliwog’s Cakewalk (from Children’s Corner Suite) Composer: Claude Debussy Arranger: Greg Smith Instrumentation: Cello quartet Product medium: PDF score and parts Sample:
A little ahead … or a little behindSamuel Sebastian Wesley received great reviews for his conding at Gloucester’s annual Three Choir Festivals in 1865. An critic in The Musical Times wrote in the October issue: We have said nothing of the orchestra during these performances, for in truth the perfect manner in which the whole of the instrumental portions of the works […]
Relationship with the museI need time to be idle in order to experience and romance my muse, Music, my lifelong partner. In some ways, when I think about the enforced thirty minute practice sessions and much-resented violin lessons during Friday recess which introduced us during my early childhood, our story feels a bit like the plot of a […]
Tchaikovsky’s output“The secret of the vital power of Tchaikovsky’s music lies in the fact that there is virtually not a single province of his music–from the gems of Russian chamber music that issued from his pen to his greatest operas or symphonic poems–in which the appeal and effect of the music was less than in any […]
Britten on The Rake’s Progress“I liked everything about the opera but the music.” – Benjamin Britten on Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress Cited in: Jarski, Rosemarie (2005) Great British Wit. London: Ebury Press, p. 203.
Jean Sibelius: Bagatelles (op. 97)(i) Humoresque I (ii) Song (iii) Little Waltz (iv) Humorous March (v) Impromptu “Never write an unnecessary note. Every note must live”.1 — Sibelius The miniature is the perfect genre to master this philosophy. Sibelius wrote the Opus 97 Bagatelles in 1920, in between his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. The quirky nature of these Bagatelles […]
A musician’s canvas“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.” -Leopold Stokowski, conductor