'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.

‘The starting point is a clear mind and a calm disposition.’

Thought for the week: Roger Babington Hill knows the score

‘The starting point is a clear mind and a calm disposition.’

by Roger Babington Hill 5th July 2019

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.