Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Leave it to a fifteen-year-old: After work on a singing tone in a John Field piece I asked her what was the difference between this and a work by Mozart. "Mozart wouldn't have written something that was only beautiful."