Listen and Create

Listen and Create

“Jesse was nervous, fantastic and utterly bizarre. Like someone in a high fever the moment her fingers encircled her violin. The simplistic beauty of the instrument created a cadence that resonated a paradigm across different senses. Jesse will suddenly fade as her senses come to life in vibrant colors, in brilliant shapes and strangeness. When she begins to play she can visualize all of the notes and their interrelationships.” This skill translates intellectually into making multiple connections in multiple spheres.

Music training has the ability to open up the pathways to creative thinking, while sharpening the quality of collaboration. The ability to listen will create a way of thinking that will weave together disparate ideas. Music can allow you to focus on the present and the future simultaneously.

Music for me has emphasized my confidence in my ability to create. Brief moments alone with a violin can help me channel a different type of creative desire.

Playing provides balance; by enjoying my moment with music I gain a satisfaction and joy completely unrelated to distinct professional work. As an individual that picked up the violin in a later stage in my life I kept playing… “Just one..more…time,” working on that little section over and over again.

From experience, I realized in a different way that you will get better if you work hard enough, a valuable life lesson that transcends the strings of a violin.