Last
night Delycia and I attended a splendid concert in New London by the Eastern
Connecticut Symphony Orhcestra, and I was especially impressed by the double
bass players. With my binoculars, I watched them as they stood in the
right-hand back rows of the orchestra. I saw the way they swayed in individual
ways, some back and forth with the flow of the music, some side to side, all studying
the score or the conductor with concentration, and all lending their smooth,
resonant sounds to the music. They were far to the side of center, and there
were many stretches when they stood silently and simply followed the music, but
the importance of their contribution was clear. They were like those of us who
stand aside from the spotlight and do our small, unnoticed, but indispensable
part. They stood off to the side, like we sometimes do, sharing their skills,
as we do, to make a little more beauty for the world.
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