{"id":3188,"date":"2011-02-20T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2011-02-20T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T17:55:14","slug":"incredible-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/incredible-mastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/rVO26URqC24&amp;feature=related\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In this video piano soloist \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVO26URqC24&amp;feature=related\">Maria Joao Pires<\/a> is confronted with a nasty situation.  \u00a0As the conductor begins the piece of music they are to play, she discovers that it is not the piece she prepared.  \u00a0She has left her music at home Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p>Undaunted, she engages in a short conversation with the conductor who encourages her to play it any way &#8211; she played it last season, she knows the piece well.<\/p>\n<p>Pires digs ddep &#8211; you can see it in her face &#8211; and conjures up Mozart&#8217;s D minor concerto form the depths of her mastery.<\/p>\n<p>There have been times when I am working with a group, when a similar feeling has overcome me.  \u00a0For whatever reason &#8211; the invitation was wrong, the situaion had changed, people were expecting something different &#8211; everything I had prepared was wrong for the moment.  \u00a0In such moments the only thing that saves you is an ability to improvise, to draw on your experience and to attend to the present needs of the group.  \u00a0This is what I strive to be able to do.  \u00a0This is why practice is so important.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video piano soloist \u00a0Maria Joao Pires is confronted with a nasty situation. \u00a0As the conductor begins the piece of music they are to play, she discovers that it is not the piece she prepared. \u00a0She has left her music at home Imagine that. Undaunted, she engages in a short conversation with the conductor who encourages her to play it any way &#8211; she played it last season, she knows the piece well. Pires digs ddep &#8211; you can see it in her face &#8211; and conjures up Mozart&#8217;s D minor concerto form the depths of her mastery. There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6,20,16,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilitation","category-invitation","category-leadership","category-music","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-Pq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}