Although I enjoy inspirational spiritual reading, I am entertained by novels and I usually have at least one on my phone at any given time. Recently, I finished a book titled The Family by Naomi Krupitsky. It’s about an organized crime family and offers a good story. What impressed me about the book, however, was the author’s delightful writing style. She is one of those writers who paints pictures using her words and it feels effortless. One of the lines she wrote made me immediately say to myself, “I have to share this on Substack.
Hi. I liked your post. As a professional musician since I was 10yrs old I'm familiar with metronomes. There's another style of metronome that doesn't make any sound. It has a blinking light to keep the player at the desired tempo. And of course in music studios we used headphones and a "click track" to keep everything together as a group. I liked your questions. I was giving it some thought and I realized that there was another question we can ask, maybe the most significant question of all: "Who is the composer?" The composer, as you know, writes the music, sets the tempo, chooses the instruments and many times ends up conducting the musical ensemble from the podium. It's one thing to become aware of the metronome in our lives and recognizing that we can set it and change it according to our will; it's quite another thing to confront the fact that WE ARE THE COMPOSER of our lives, to which we set metronomes at different tempos so we can follow the tempo, keep the group together, refine our presentation and hopefully achieve a rousing standing ovation at the end! I'm being funny, of course, but this opens up a whole other area of self-discovery, at least it has for me: I've been an accompanist and I've been a soloist, and either way I'm still the composer and the way my life will go, and the tempo I set my metronome to, originates with me.
Hi. I liked your post. As a professional musician since I was 10yrs old I'm familiar with metronomes. There's another style of metronome that doesn't make any sound. It has a blinking light to keep the player at the desired tempo. And of course in music studios we used headphones and a "click track" to keep everything together as a group. I liked your questions. I was giving it some thought and I realized that there was another question we can ask, maybe the most significant question of all: "Who is the composer?" The composer, as you know, writes the music, sets the tempo, chooses the instruments and many times ends up conducting the musical ensemble from the podium. It's one thing to become aware of the metronome in our lives and recognizing that we can set it and change it according to our will; it's quite another thing to confront the fact that WE ARE THE COMPOSER of our lives, to which we set metronomes at different tempos so we can follow the tempo, keep the group together, refine our presentation and hopefully achieve a rousing standing ovation at the end! I'm being funny, of course, but this opens up a whole other area of self-discovery, at least it has for me: I've been an accompanist and I've been a soloist, and either way I'm still the composer and the way my life will go, and the tempo I set my metronome to, originates with me.
Thanks for your great insights, Rhio. You are 100% correct and I love the analogy of being the Composer of our lives!