Composition

There's something magical about sitting in a room and listening to a musician play their own composition.  I admit there is great talent and skill in mastering the musical creations of other artists.  Each musician plays the same song in a new way, with a personal feeling imbued in the dancing notes.  For this reason hearing music- particularly live music, for in this venue the listener becomes a very real part of the experience- is enjoyable, inspiring and moving.  But all the excellent music a talented artist can play stands as nothing to his own composition.  For his song is deeply personal, a revelation to the world, and no one will play it like the creator. For he played it first.  He gave it life.  It spoke first to him and he alone could tell you the thousand little secrets hidden in the melody.  But of course he won't- because as the listener, it is your job to discover what you can of the depths presented to you.  To simply tell you would diminish the music and the story it tells.  That's why music is magic- it speaks to everyone differently, whispers different things.  But it does speak to everyone, so no one feels left out and everyone can appreciate a true composition - for what they know of it, and the knowledge that they don't know all of it.