clare de lune

Someone is asking me to play clare de lune on the piano, so I begin to play it, but the they say it doesn't sound right,
"Its not sounding like the way you played it before"

and I say "I can play it the way I want to play it, but not how others want me to play it",

She disagrees with me on this point, and I ignore her and begin to play again, but she is right, I was playing it in the wrong key...

Another person comes along, this time a man, and says,
"you need to play it louder at the beginning",

I know this is surely wrong, so I try to demonstrate, and argue that he clearly hasn't seen the score,
"Look at the score", I say, "it says quietly",

I try to sing it to him, pointing out the fact that there is a hidden beat at the very beginning of the piece, that unless you knew the piece you wouldn't know it was there....

I sing it to the man and woman, and now they get where I'm coming from, and I also feel I know where I'm coming from...

The magic of singing...