{"id":513,"date":"2018-02-19T18:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:52:23","slug":"mosaic-2017-for-13-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic (2017) for 13 instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-719\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-719\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20170526_103927.jpg?resize=810%2C810&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20170526_103927.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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transformative learning experience for the thirteen students that premiered the piece.\u00a0 I personally invested 60 or more hours in rehearsing\u00a0<em>Mosaic<\/em>, from one-to-one coaching, to sectionals and full rehearsals.\u00a0 I firmly believe that we as teachers\/musicians sometimes should not judge the value of our work on the basis of the performance that results: behind that performance is a lot of learning and growing on the part of the students involved.\u00a0 This is a far from ideal performance, but I put it up here in humility, as I know how much this performance meant to all of us (performance from the 2017 May Music Festival):<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_35918\"  width=\"810\" height=\"456\"  data-origwidth=\"810\" data-origheight=\"456\"  data-relstop=\"1\" 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