Blog season 2: IndependanceSeptember 2nd, 2009
It’s been a year already since I started writing this blog. After two months of well deserved rest, I am back on the web, I mean on my blog. It was a sincere pleasure to share my ideas and my wishes with you last year.
My vacation was studious: no articles, but the 33 variations on a waltz by Diabelli (those who follow me on Facebook already know it), and some work projects I had not completed yet. I also relaxed, don’t worry, and I finally could enjoy a summer in my beautiful city of Prague, siping a few cocktails on the banks of the Vltava, or walking around the many parks of the city. I had the need to recharge my batteries after a particularly trying year.
September, month of the start of school. This year, for the first time since preschool, I am not going back to school. I did not notice before but I had never been really independent, I mean pianistically speaking. Always having someone directing me, never really free. I left the institutions to which I belonged in order to stand on my own two feet. Well, on my own two feet but under control, because I am not saying that I won’t get coached from time to time… So, independence means change in the way I live. But also in the way I work: more time to get to the bottom of things and to develop myself along a single line.
This “special” year, I have decided to start it with six months of introspection. Take the time to think, put back into question some basical things, work on some problems I haven’t had the time to deal with before, and reexamine my interpretation according to my own taste. A student’s life does not always allow radical changes, for the first time I will be able to build on what I have learnt and live my own life. Exciting but terrifying.
As for the blog this year, I will try to offer more interactive content and maybe educational. Why not some video analysis if I feel capable. Till then, back to the piano!