No wrong notes.
The first rule of piano playing is to trust yourself. If you approach the keyboard with any fear whatsoever, you miss the point of it all -- the joy of expression, the partnership with a composer, the responsibility of pulling out of the instrument all that it can do. Trusting yourself is not always easy but it is essential to bringing your best game. To the keyboard and pretty much everything else.
Why you believe the things you do
Morgan Housel: People can be led to believe and defend almost anything, because the goal of a belief is often not to discover what’s true – it’s to justify past actions, or protect your reputation, or provide hope when it’s lacking, or to maximize your income, or to signal to others that you belong to the tribe.
The piano ain't got no wrong notes: the genius of Thelonious Monk
The Write Place: His playing was almost as much about the notes he didn’t play as the ones he did, along with the gaps and pauses in places no one else would think of putting them. As he himself said: “Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do."
Mid-century Americans didn't know Antonio Petruccelli's name, but they sure knew his art
Ted Loos: Petruccelli’s is an appealing underdog story, one that his sons and grandsons are working to make better known, now with the help of Sherman, who is representing the estate. The artist was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and raised in Manhattan’s Little Italy. “He was a true New Yorker,” says his eldest son, Mike Petruccelli, 89. “Grew up a Yankee fan and died a Yankee fan.” Illustrating came early. “From middle school onwards, he was always making art,” says Mike. “It was a passion for him.” He attended a special New York high school for textile design and later practiced it as a profession.
A Virginia museum repatriated a Nigerian sculpture and received a high-tech replica in return
Jo Lawson-Tancred: The aim was to pilot a new restitution model, and “show how digital technologies can be used to share objects, so that repatriation is not necessarily a zero sum game,” Saumarez Smith told Artnet News.