To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
Russell ShermanSurely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.
Russell ShermanThe breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
Russell ShermanThe contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.
Russell ShermanArt is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.
Russell Sherman