Shostakovich, Brahms,
Tchaikovsky evidently
wish beyond the grave
that I would play the violin
less gravely. When I bowed
their notes to them today,
they chided me: Scrap all
the urgency, they said,
don’t dread the music: sing.
To miss the delicacy –
to miss the innocence –
is to miss everything.
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