Article February 27, 1954 Issue

A LESSON FROM MUSICIANS

[Original article in French]

MARGARET HALF-WINTERBERGER

"Realize the truth." This is the answer Christian Science gives to the question, "What can I do when I am obsessed by my problem and cannot stop thinking about it?" The Saviour pointed out that it is the truth that makes free, and he used many parables to make the truth understood by those who heard him.

The writer has found help many times in her efforts to demonstrate the truth by thinking of musicians preparing for a concert. They do not spend hours and days rehearsing wrong notes, incorrect tempo and rhythm! If that were the case, we should hear discord in place of a symphony on the evening of the concert. And we should recognize neither the composer nor his work.

Musicians rehearse in order to perfect their playing of the music as it is written, and to overcome the difficulties which keep them from correctly interpreting the composer's work. When a mistake occurs, the conductor recognizes that the fault is no part of the music, and with his baton signals the musician or musicians to follow the score and the conductor scrupulously. The musician who interprets without fault a great master's composition has worked assiduously to play only what the composer wrote. He observes and respects all the rules of music. It would not occur to him to add or subtract anything.

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