The following perspective is something beautiful by pianist and composer Heather Niemi Savage, who expressed to me the idea of “standing up for your own work and making decisions according to your beliefs about your art in general and what the specific piece needs, even when others try to tell you differently.” In our conversation this resonated with me as well. Music is one of those fields where there are general guidelines and rules to help make music speak better to the soul, but, paraphrasing one my…