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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIn\na world where everyone is in a hurry, it feels like one never gets the time to\nclose their eyes, stop for a while and think. To think about everything that life\nhas thrown at us but we have never taken the time to fully understand. A one\nhour cello performance by Jonathan Swensen allowed me to reflect on my thoughts\nthat have been suppressed for so long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Honesty\nis the policy and honestly, I was dreading to go to a cello performance on a\nbeautiful sunny day. Little did I know that a cello performance would make feel\nlike all the little broken pieces in me were put back together just by simply\nlistening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As\nI walked into what seemed to be an empty Foellinger Great Hall, I sat and tried\nto tell myself that I could sit through the first half of the performance and then\nwalk out. To my surprise, I stayed for the whole performance. The second Jonathan\nSwensen touched the cello\ufffds string, I completely spaced out and was taken to\nanother universe with the heavenly music of the cello in the background. It was\nduring this time when I came to the realization that art is everything. That\neverything in life is beautiful and that although we see in color sometimes we\nare so blinded that we cannot see the beauty of the color. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd After Jonathan Swensen\ufffds performance I have the most upmost respect for cello players. It saddens me that the biggest hall in The Krannert Art Performing Center was practically empty, however his performance left me completely speechless and fulfilled like I\ufffdve never been before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The heavenly strings that pulled my heart so perfectly and unexpectedly. Written by Jackie Dominguez De Paz In a world where everyone is in a hurry, it feels like one never gets the time to close their eyes, stop for a while and think. To think about everything that life has thrown at usContinue reading “The Heavenly Strings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2235,1],"tags":[1542,1497,1401,540,2003],"class_list":["post-16610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-arts-in-motion-spring-2020","category-uncategorized","tag-cello","tag-emotions","tag-foellinger-great-hall","tag-powerful","tag-truth-and-beauty","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16613,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16610\/revisions\/16613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching-without-borders.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}