The Most Important Thing You Can Do as a Musician Classical music often falls into a trap of self-isolation. Our art requires diligent study and lonely hours of practice, and when we perform together it’s with fellow musicians. It’s a bubble of sorts, and more dangerously, an echo chamber where we lose perspective with the outside world. Some of this isolation comes as an inevitable side effect of dedicating yourself to a craft so fully. But we need to be cautious about t