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what music can do

A friend sent this along to me last night as I was finishing up a previous blog posting, and I took the time to read it instead of just passing it over with good intentions.  I’m so glad I did.  There is so much in the business of producing music that is stressful, disheartening, political, petty, venial, difficult, and non-musical.  It sometimes makes it hard to see why one is doing the act of making music in the first place.  Documents such as this one remind one why music is so important to both create and listen to.

The following is a welcoming address given to incoming freshmen at the Boston Conservatory of Music by Karl Paulnack, who is a pianist and director of the Conservatory’s music division.  I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.