Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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It's never as bad as it feels
When things go well.....smile. When things go badly.....smile. There's always another day. Life moves on and today's mistakes are soon forgotten. And anyway they're rarely as bad as we feel them at the time. Tomorrow is another day and it will be great! You never know what's around the corner.
I was at the Barbican Concert Hall, London last night to hear a performance of Shostakovitch and Tchaikovsky piano trios with Maxim Vengerov (violin) with Lilya Zilberstein (piano) and Alisa Weilerstein (cello). All three are wonderful soloists in their own right and the performance was electric of these two complex pieces. Brilliant stuff.
But towards the end of the Tchaikovsky and of the recital, one of Alisa Weilerstein's strings broke. Disaster. She could not carry on so she stood up, smiled and left the stage while the other two performers carried on for a few more bars before stopping. As Alisa smiled and walked off to change her string the audience applauded. They were 'with her'. Vengerov and Zilberstein also left the stage so all three could return together after a few minutes to rapturous applause. They started the movement again and played brilliantly.
A broken string is about as bad as it gets for performers of stringed instruments. But did it matter? Not really. The audience was 'with' Alisa. The 24 year old who started playing the cello at the age of four has charisma and stature that belie her age. She is a truly exciting performer with the most wonderful tone. Watch out for her. We all loved her performance and the others too.
Things are never that bad you can't find a smile if you want to. And by doing so we shift the energy. It makes life good.
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