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more time analyzing this, you'll find that there's more in common
than you might think.
Someone once said that my life bordered on the operatic. I
thought that was an unusual analogy so I decided to find out more
about opera. As were many things, opera actually began in Greece
and was then taken up much later in Florence, with the first opera
being performed in Venice. Considering the sound level in my office
sometimes - and since I don't use intercoms - I can relate to opera
in that sense. And since I've studied the Greeks, I can get that part
too. So I figure when the Greek influence intersected with the music
being written in the 17th century in Italy, this art form was bound to
happen. Some things take centuries to evolve. I'm still evolving, so
I'm pleased to be considered operatic, although sitting through an
opera is something I just can't do. It just can't compete with
baseball in my book. But I've always believed that you can respect
something without having to embrace it.
Beethoven was another groundbreaker. He blew people away
when he decided to add voices to his massive 9th Symphony. We all
know the "Ode to Joy" at this point, and can't imagine this work
without it, but back then it was considered to be innovative. It was
a sensation. And it didn't happen overnight - he made sketches for
this symphony in 1811 and the work premiered in 1824. Those ideas
were developing for thirteen years. I would say Beethoven had been
thinking big for awhile.
Thinking expansively is just
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another way to innovate. Sometimes I
Thinking expansively ask myself, what else can I include in
incl udes seelng what my thought process to make it more
comprehensive? Isthere anything I can
is possible and
add that might enhance the project or
making it happen.
idea I've got spinning around in my
head? Many times I will tell myself
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that something isn't quite right yet -

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