'As I was rubbing out the extraneous marks on my score, I thought of the parallels with reading a spiritual text...' Photo: Johanna Vogt / Unsplash.
Thought for the week: Roger Babington Hill knows the score
‘The starting point is a clear mind and a calm disposition.’
Yesterday I spent over an hour erasing pencil marks on my copy of the cello part for Dmitri Shostakovich’s wonderful Fifth Symphony which we are to play next month.