====== Play to Those Five ======
http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu13.shtml#d10.05.13.13

[This is a great post by one of my heroes, Don Lancaster.]

Many years ago, I was attending a folk concert. The
opening act was a single and an unknown flute player,
performing in front of the closed stage curtains. His
job was to warm up the audience for the high priced
help that was soon to follow.

He was good. Very good.

But as he went along, the music started getting strange
and finally downright weird. He was playing chords on
his flute, along with notes with unbelievably strong
tonal structures. Eventually, the music turned into
bunches of Impossible sounding and god-awful squawks.

Almost all of the audience got bored and restless as the
music seemed to deteriorate. Just then, I happened to
notice a friend beside me who had played in and had
taught concert band. He was literally on the edge of his
chair with his mouth open.

He briefly turned to me and said very slowly, ''You
can't do that with a flute. It is not possible."

Of the thousands of people in the audience, at the most
only five realized they were now witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime performance involving the absolute mastery of
a very difficult musical instrument. To nearly everyone
else, It sounded like a bunch of god-awful squawks.

Always play for those five.