tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post6258573220518162617..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Notes from the PianoElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-51704400784320892612014-07-09T10:46:31.229-05:002014-07-09T10:46:31.229-05:00It's been my contention to anyone who will dis...It's been my contention to anyone who will discuss classical music with me that Haydn is the most underappreciated of the great composers. How rare do his works seem to show up on concert programs nowadays. It's a shame and the audiences' loss.Bill@deepkimcheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08428409331680200802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-36339189658987692762014-06-28T08:57:56.141-05:002014-06-28T08:57:56.141-05:00"...I am now turning to him as a way to expre..."...I am now turning to him as a way to express myself emotionally...." Is this not what the sublime in music does so well, and what popular music as well as much of the modern avant-garde has forgotten or lost the ability to do? When one considers the eggheaded but emotionally dull complexity of some avant-garde, on the one hand, or simply being yelled at as rap does, what seems missing is the range of emotion which some of our masters showed so simply. Perhaps the modern world is just become about being pissed off, outraged, angry, in a turmoil twenty-four seven? It seems to me that some classical music is much like a vacation, a stroll on the seashore or a walk in the woods, away from the hubbub. Darn good place to turn, isn't it? Don't worry too much about the fingers' strength. That's done in a few obsessive pianists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com