Having another work event tonight meant that I was able to
take a couple of hours off today. So, I watched Germany
vs. Greece in the Euro Cup quarterfinals.* I watched from a café that was
showing the game, and had the third movement of the Bach going through my head
the entire time.
And—I can’t be the only person who does this—the music in my
head just had to find a physical outlet, however subtle. For me today, inside
my left hand, the signals were firing away. My coffee cup served as the
fingerboard. I held it lightly in both hands and let my left fingers pulse against it with
the fingerings of the first page or so. Yeah, this went on for the whole game.
It occurred to me that if I could mentally run through
bowing in this fashion, maybe my bowing would improve faster. Something to work
on?
* I liked the symmetry of Marco Reus scoring one of his
first international goals in the same game where Miroslav Klose scored his
umpteenth. As life goes on, I find myself rooting for the old guys.
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