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I spoke too soon. I got to coach with Tom tonight. He had an open studio, in Stude Concert Hall no less. Three huge-voiced grad-students went, and I finally screwed up my courage to volunteer when he asked for a last person. He has musicality permeating every cell, but even better, he knows how to communicate it in a way that anyone can understand.
I have sung Silent Noon in studio before, and received feedback which improved me, but with Tom coaching and at the piano both, it's utterly freeing and honest, a state I've only found with one other pianist. It nearly made me cry, because I felt so beautiful. I had something so beautiful both to sing, which is there every time because it's a beautiful song, and to express, because I know what the song is about and to show it to other people lets me see it more clearly. Tom shows you... no, he doesn't. He says, "hah!" and throws his hand in a seemingly random direction and plays a chord and it's all there before you and the way it's put together is perfectly clear in the context he gave you, because it's all from you and not from outside.
And he's coming to studio tomorrow, too. I don't know if I can stand it, he's so amazing.
I have sung Silent Noon in studio before, and received feedback which improved me, but with Tom coaching and at the piano both, it's utterly freeing and honest, a state I've only found with one other pianist. It nearly made me cry, because I felt so beautiful. I had something so beautiful both to sing, which is there every time because it's a beautiful song, and to express, because I know what the song is about and to show it to other people lets me see it more clearly. Tom shows you... no, he doesn't. He says, "hah!" and throws his hand in a seemingly random direction and plays a chord and it's all there before you and the way it's put together is perfectly clear in the context he gave you, because it's all from you and not from outside.
And he's coming to studio tomorrow, too. I don't know if I can stand it, he's so amazing.
