How Music Should Be
I have a confession to make: I am not big into going to classical music concerts. I still keep attending a few performances a year, harboring hope that I'll enjoy them, but my hit rate is one out of fifteen or so.
It is mostly my problem, not the performers' – I may choose the wrong seats, where the acoustics are bad, or start daydreaming, or get distracted by people in the audience. I cannot tell you how many times I have enjoyed listening to the same piece of music in my car on the way to the concert more than at the concert itself. (Opera is an exception; the hit rate there is maybe eight out of ten.)
This is why I wanted to share with you this little "spontaneous" performance in a French restaurant. This is how music should be. I bet many people in this restaurant would never be caught dead in a symphony hall or an opera house, but here this music truly touched them and maybe even changed them a little.
Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO at IMA, a value investing firm in Denver. He has written two books on investing, which were published by John Wiley & Sons and have been translated into eight languages. Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is his first non-investing book. You can get unpublished bonus chapters by forwarding your purchase receipt to bonus@soulinthegame.net.
Really the essence of music - wonderful!