November 12, 2023
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INTERVIEW | PI Laureate Wynton Marsalis on Believing in the Music: Jazz great Wynton Marsalis talks about his music, healing the divides and maintaining integrity in an interview upon receiving the PI music category award. (Japan Forward, 11/12/23)
Can you share one of the lessons you learned from your father?One of the greatest lessons that he taught in our high school class was, on the first day of his class, he would put the four chairs in the middle of the room. Each facing a different direction. And he would say, "What do you see?" Each person would say what they saw. "I see this, I see a blackboard, I see a fan, I see a window." Everyone saw something totally different.We thought the test was how much you can see. So we would keep naming the stuff we saw. And then when we finished, we thought he would say, "You are very observant. You observed more." But he said, "Does anybody doubt that they are in the same room?" That was his lesson.This is the thing we struggle with on earth to this moment. We struggle with it.
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2023 2:17 AM