Shattering dreams into a million pieces

Don’t you just hate it when…

…you drop a glass of water and it shatters into a million pieces?

…or you miss the bus by a fraction of a second and the next one comes in 20 minutes?

…or you’re excited about a new project or idea you’ve had, you tell it to someone, and they react way below your own level of excitement?

I don’t know about you, but this last one is by far the worst for me.

Like when I had the idea to make an arrangement of one of my favorite works of music, Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons, for solo piano.

I told the idea to a pianist friend, and his level of enthusiasm was lower than that of a dying cactus.

It put me a bit down, but I went on with my project.

Fast forward to a year from that, and I was in Las Vegas at the Latin Grammy Awards celebration. I had been nominated for a Grammy because of recording those same arrangements.

What did I learn? Two things:

1) Keeping important projects to myself.

2) Speak less, show more.

You can listen to one of these Latin-Trammy nominated arrangements of mine here: My arrangement for piano of Primavera Porteña ←

And buy the score if you wish on the same link. It’s actually very cheap… to be a Latin-Grammy nominated piece ;)

Have a great day.

Claudio.

LIsten to my arrangement here