Instead he closed his eyes, nodded to the conductor and played with passion and power unlike anything the audience had heard before.
Of course, it is impossible to play a symphonic work with 3 strings, but Perlman played on and he played music more beautiful than he ever had before. When the noise of the crowd subsided he was called to say a few words.
He said, “our job is to make music with what remains, in life everyone is on centre stage and much lies broken in every one of us. But we need to play even if we have only 3 strings. We are capable of creating music with what we have left that is more beautiful than we ever imagined”.
Onwards
Richard
