Modesto Symphony Orchestra Performs at the Gallo Center
Posted by admin - Categorized under: Music, TravelJimmy passed by the Gallo Center for the Arts and imagined his first performance with the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. This was a future projection imagination, not a memory, as he hadn’t even had his audition yet. He arrived in town early that morning and was staying in a hotel Modesto that night. He would fly back to Utah the next evening after his audition. He paused for a moment in the parking lot of the Gallo and thought how easily this could be the beginning of his career or he may never see the place again, or at least for years to come.
He imagined how major life changes and events can be determined by one hour on a single afternoon. He then considered all of the minor factors such as the one vote that could mean he would be hired being sick in bed that day and not making it to his audition. Or, the alternative, perhaps the person before him might have been horrible and he was the best violinist they heard that day and just out of frustration with the alternatives decided to hire him on the spot. All of these and of course many other possibilities wandered through his mind as he gazed off in the direction of the Gallo’s marquee.
Well, that kind of thinking led to the conclusion that life was nothing but a series of chance occurrences and their consequences. He had worked too hard and practiced and studied and performed the violin most of his life to believe that his future was strictly left to chance. And instead of being comforted by the fact he had no control over the decision made by others he was greatly relieved to be reminded that his future was in fact in his own hands. He stopped in a local diner and had meatloaf and mashed potatoes before heading back to his hotel for a quick run through of his concerto excerpt. He would practice again tomorrow morning after he warmed up after his morning coffee.
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