Russell Sherman
Russell Sherman
Russell Shermanis an American classical pianist, educator and author...
never-forget missions faceless
Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.
echoes play issues
When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.