Thursday, March 10, 2011
Dear Bandemoniums,
It has come to my attention (by whisper of the bird who flew by) that the Singapore Youth Festival Central Judging 2011 for Raffles Girls' School Symphonic Band is scheduled for 8th March 2011. Which is exactly 4 weeks. 28 days. 672 hours. 40320 minutes. 2419200 seconds.
It would be a lie to say that the outcome is unimportant. (Of what good is a clock with all it's mechanisms working but its needles superglued to a spot? I believe that is not the best analogy. Oh well.) But it is the truth that the process is more important than the outcome in most cases, such as this one. While doing your best is not always enough, there must have been something created for us to do that would make something enough: the answer is "doing better than your best". Is that sense-making? Or should I say making sense? It's all the same anyway. Almost.
My main message is that we should all have learnt our notes, learnt our rhythm; now it's time to feel the notes and rhythm and play the music. We are not competing with other bands; we are being judged individually without comparison to other bands (not counting the natural human tendency to do so). So we play our best; and get the best we can.
Ban-demonium (in the rhythm of Bob the builder)
YES WE CAN!
One more thing:
Think about what we are doing this for. Don't work so hard, day and night, without knowing what you are working for. That would be so sad. Like Boxer in Animal Farm. Or like many other people in our society. Perhaps ourselves? I'm sure if you get even a vague idea of your pushing factor, you will be clearly motivated.
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