tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post5931856709121376012..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Learning Styles II: Musing on Memory and MemorizingElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-90490534575075251072012-08-21T21:58:40.564-05:002012-08-21T21:58:40.564-05:00She was a person of really rare musical genius who...She was a person of really rare musical genius who had the very best teaching and musical home life that anyone could wish for. We are very lucky that she was recognized and celebrated during her lifetime. I believe that it made being sick for most of her life more bearable.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-21836773323023744012012-08-21T20:27:29.168-05:002012-08-21T20:27:29.168-05:00This is totally off-point (though I am encouraged ...This is totally off-point (though I am encouraged very much by your thoughts on ability to memorize or not, as I was never able to memorize properly either, and it was so dispiriting), but I have been thinking of you, as I was up at Bard for a concert in which one of the pieces was Lili Boulanger's Psalm 130 (which I am listening to again now). It is astounding, remarkable, every superlative, and to imagine that she heard and set it down in the course of such a short life. This piece, like Pie Jesu, to which you led me, is a marvel. The piece was paired with Florent Schmitt's, for the same orchestration, and I gather that Boulanger heard his piece before she wrote her own. His piece, while of historical interest, had no lasting interest, but hers is for all time (in my humble opinion, at least).Susan Scheidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250142489341777926noreply@blogger.com