What Actually Happened

 

Art is always the process of squaring what we wanted to do and what we eventually did. 

It's fairly rare that anyone that's creating any kind of art form that it turns out exactly the way it was envisioned. Everybody has seen a composer's score--all the scratch and scribble--as Beethoven's sketches were. Eventually the music had to be "manufactured" through the publishing process by editors and copyists. Copyists are instrumental in getting it to a published form that can get printed to parts and put in front of the musicians and then performed and recorded. There's a whole sequence of things that has to happen before there's an audience to hear it. But when you go all the way back to the beginning where the first notes were being put on manuscript paper it's a totally different world. It's the gap between the original ideas and what eventually happened and is always totally different.