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The nicest thing about a crisis is coming out of it! In an “either/or” situation, there is bound to be some compromising, surely this happens in the life of most people! Having to make decisions brought about by unexpected circumstances can be a good thing... I can assure you that from having felt so vulnerable for a long while, I could only resurface stronger: whatever convictions I had in me solidified rather like granite!

As long as a heart ticks away, there will be ups-and-downs but also energy, ensuing emotions, ambition and ideas: want it or not! Being healthy will remain the most important requisite in our life: we will forever have to deal with ... the rest!

Once this hiccup over, I felt better within myself, even phrases in music started to breathe more easily reaching out with an impact more palpable than ever. Myriad details, gone amiss until then, seemed to ‘scream’ into life!

Time came to prepare the next course on my ‘concert-menu’: Brahms’ Concerto #2, with its ‘little’ Scherzo – something you certainly need to get your teeth into -- nothing better than such a challenge to get one slowly back to reality.

Before this emotionally taxing month was over, I flew off to the Amazon, where I was to play in an opera house built in the middle of the Jungle!