Grace under pressure. When everything is going right almost all professionals can perform their tasks adequately. The true test is when everything is going wrong.
When a String Snaps Mid Performance
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Preparation is as important as persistence.
Mother told me a string snapped on Itztak Perlman’s violin and he asked the audience if anyone had a G-string. It brought down the house.
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I am pleased as punch with myself if I break a string on my racket; however, I always have back-up racket. I won a match against a superior player whose string snapped and she had no back-up.
Oh it just brings tears to my eyes ! God wills that there be Beauty in the world.
The music, the offering of talent, the quickness of the first violinist too
Nobody handles a broken string better than Stevie Ray Vaughan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn1pk8Lpelc