What to Listen for in the World

I thought this article was very cool, because I was able to relate it to what Paul talked about in class today. How they say composition and music are thought of very differently, in the sense that in class today, Paul asked about 4 or 5 people what they thought his symbol meant, and each person had a very different sound. As soon as I read the part about "understanding" it just made me think of that; how we all understand the same thing in many different ways.

Also, I believe that you have to believe in yourself to do something. If you quit believing, you will not succeed. Just as Yo-Yo-Ma did. He read the piece, played the piece PERFECTLY, then once the author pointed out the "impossible" part in it, he began to play it again and was stopped at the "impossible" part and wasn't able to do it anymore. Because he stopped and realized that for a split second, his fingers were uncomfortable, he couldn't do it anymore.