Tonight, I had dinner with a new and dear friend, Bruce Pomahac - General Music Director of Rodgers&Hammerstein Theatricals. He shared an analogy with me which I have to post here for all my fellow musicians: He describes himself in the music business as a big fat seal on a rock, happily basking in the sun. Sometimes he can stay in the sun all day and be warm and content. Other times, he knows he has to jump into that icy cold water and find a fish to eat because, to put it simply, he’ll starve if he doesn’t. He dreads jumping in, and when he finally does, it’s definitely awful. It’s icy cold and numbing to his body - and completely the opposite of that warm roost on the rock’s surface. But sooner rather than later, his body adjusts. He acclimates to the water and it stings less. He swims around in it for awhile until he gets what he needs. Then he can come back up on the rock and bask awhile longer. The surface of the rock is the joy of making music - the blithe naiveté from our youth which allows us to stay eternally in love. The icy cold water is the business of making music. The reality is that we are the seals and we can’t live without either. Blessed be all that is and was and is to come.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:23:02 +0000
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