There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
That audience embrace has unbelievable power.
Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity.
You are all you will ever have for certain.
Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.
So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
When you have a big heart and big stuff, anything is possible.