tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post7958794456066005120..comments2024-03-23T11:40:13.092-05:00Comments on Musical Assumptions: Sobering thought for the dayElaine Finehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-35863282061331630332007-10-16T20:05:00.000-05:002007-10-16T20:05:00.000-05:00I guess I find the word "lie" too harsh, as it has...I guess I find the word "lie" too harsh, as it has moral implications, in my book anyway. I have found that sometimes there is little connection between great music and great humans. Maybe it is just the recovery from my protestant-jewish background, I recoil from the judgmental, unless I am tempted to excercise my own (but I am not opinionated... no... I swear... :-)Peter (the other)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13566863953900423495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-68127606316451600492007-10-16T07:05:00.000-05:002007-10-16T07:05:00.000-05:00Ah, but Kauder was a fantastic composer who wrote ...Ah, but Kauder was a fantastic composer who wrote counterpoint like Bach--really (there is a recording that just came out of his first four string quartets on Centaur, but he has 300 or so other pieces that have never been professionally recorded). I imagine that Kauder could improvise four-part fugues, and I imagine that what came out of of his head on the spot was as beautiful and moving as what he put on paper.Elaine Finehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248422399226824168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10680113.post-28949872173188473612007-10-16T02:00:00.000-05:002007-10-16T02:00:00.000-05:00Hmmm, might that fellows wig be on a bit too tight...Hmmm, might that fellows wig be on a bit too tight? In the studio, I used to joke, "once is a mistake, twice is a style." But... can he improvise? To me, there is something in the experience of both making, and listening to music that involves a quality that some might label spiritual. This state is something that transcends "wrong" notes. A monkey can play the black dots perfectly, and all too much it seems I hear those kind of performances. The other kind is god given, and god don't play no stinkin' wrong notes, no matter what the composer might think ("stinking copyist harumph") ;-)Peter (the other)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13566863953900423495noreply@blogger.com