The Old Master and the Young Novice
A mother wishing to encourage her son's progress at the piano, bought tickets to a
Paderewski performance.
When the evening arrived, they found their seats near the front of the concert hall and
eyed the majestic Steinway
waiting on stage. Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away.
At eight o'clock, the lights in the auditorium began to dim, the spotlights came on, and
only then did they notice the
boy---upon the bench, innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
His mother gasped, but before she could retrieve her son, the master appeared on the stage
and quickly moved to
the keyboard. He whispered to the boy. "Don't quit. Keep playing." Leaning over,
Paderewski reached down
with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the
other side and
improvised a delightful obbligato. Together, the old master and the young novice held the
crowd mesmerized.
In our lives, unpolished though we may be, it is the Master who surrounds us and
whispers in our ear time and
time again, "Don't quit. Keep playing." And, as we do, He augments and supplements
until work of amazing
beauty is created.
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