Patience on the learning curve

"Composers must put in the time."
~ Frank Ticheli


"This long 'refining' period for me is an extraordinarily painful process. I find myself feeling the highest highs and the lowest lows, and at times it keeps me up all night...My experience has been that in order to develop an idea and bring a new creation into the world, you must go through a certain learning curve. I don't believe that you can be taught this curve, but you must suffer through and find it on your own. And the only way this can happen is by spending hours and hours and hours searching for the answer."
~ Eric Whitacre


One more step, on a very long journey....


~m