{"id":15290,"date":"2013-10-16T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T12:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=15290"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T16:23:31","slug":"stephen-hough-practices-wisdom-as-he-discovers-that-the-minds-clear-vision-is-not-a-stare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/10\/16\/stephen-hough-practices-wisdom-as-he-discovers-that-the-minds-clear-vision-is-not-a-stare\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hough practices wisdom as he discovers that &#8216;the mind&#8217;s clear vision is not a stare&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15291\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hough.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hough.jpg\" alt=\"(Christian Steiner photo)\" width=\"512\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hough.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hough-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Christian Steiner photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Few people have been able to distill the essentials of how to practice music as effectively as Stephen Hough in his most recent blog post for <em>The Telegraph<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hough&#8217;s insights have passed through the ever-finer sieves of necessity &#8212; of needing to find time to perfect his art while engaged in a very busy performance calendar. But the beauty here is in how he relates the practical necessities with larger, artistic goals.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, he relates the point at which performer and audience member intersect &#8212; and become bonded beyond the immediate moment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You may be Brahms&#8217;s secretary in the practice room, but on stage you are his mouthpiece. And a composer\u2019s message is always more than words: it&#8217;s a drama in which you and Brahms are as one character.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole, concise, eloquent lesson is well worth reading, whether you&#8217;re a player or a listener &#8212; especially when Hough&#8217;s wisdom applies so nicely to everything we do in life: &#8220;The mind&#8217;s clear vision is not a stare: it needs to be able to focus near and far with flexibility and wisdom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/stephenhough\/100070997\/the-practice-of-practising\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few people have been able to distill the essentials of how to practice music as effectively as Stephen Hough in his most recent blog post for The Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,19,31,36,42,47],"tags":[6451,526,4013,2298,6468,2689,3127,3254],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/hough.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-3YC","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34293,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15290\/revisions\/34293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}