I think we have followed someone else's agenda for too long thinking that unless we're THEM, we have no right to blaze our trail.
For example: Make up your own harmonization; Improvise without consciously copying anyone; When composing, mix old elements in a new and surprising way; Try out weird stop combinations (cymbel + tierce + 16'); Transpose a part of your piece in a mode that you imagined; Come up with the part disposition in your hymn playing that nobody uses; Play a chorale in parallel fifths; Start a postlude pianissimo; Play a minor piece in a major key; Repeat a "mistake" a few times in improvisation; Play the piece from the score upside down; Set up 15 minutes a day to fail in public; Feels too risky, doesn't it? And yet, it's exactly what will make you indispensable, the one we can't live without.
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Drs. Vidas Pinkevicius and Ausra Motuzaite-Pinkeviciene Organists of Vilnius University , creators of Secrets of Organ Playing. Our Hauptwerk Setup:
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