Rachael Beesley
Violin
FLOW
INSPIRATION
“The Intention of Musick is not only to please the Ear, but to express Sentiments, strike the Imagination, affect the Mind, and command the Passions. The Art of playing the Violin consists in giving that Instrument a Tone that shall in a Manner rival the most perfect human Voice; and in executing every Piece with Exactness, Propriety, and Delicacy of Expression according to the true Intention of Musick.”
“…the Performer, who is ambitious to inspire his Audience, to be first inspired himself; which he cannot fail to be if he choses a Work of genius, if he makes himself thoroughly acquainted with all its Beauties; and if while his Imagination is warm and glowing he pours the same exalted Spirit into his own Performance.”
[Geminiani “The Art of Playing on the Violin”]
