Lovely morning.Even if you have the same materials and tools in front of you, you don’t know what you are going to make until the end. If you are a different person, and depending on your emotions, the work you make will be completely different. That is why it is interesting.
The combination of something with something else, the timing, the situation, makes what we create unique. That’s what makes us different from machines that make things the same way. Of course, constant and stable production is really necessary to make our lives safe, and this makes the world we live in more and more convenient.
However, it is human beings who have created something using what they have been given and what is in front of them, and it is human beings who are involved in the process of creating something new using what they have created, and creating something new based on what they have created. It is also human beings who adjust and maintain what they have made. When I think about this, I don’t want to forget how wonderful it is that people can think and how wonderful it is that things are created.
The Chopin Competition is over. People all over the world are now waiting for the results. Even if you play the same piece of music, on the same piano, with the same orchestra, each person’s performance is different and there are many different interpretations and feelings about the piece. I was deeply and profoundly grateful for the excellence of all the participants, for the music and for being able to enjoy the performance at the same time, so far away in Warsaw. Now we will know the result.