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.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
We should think about nightmares. I had a recurring nightmare when I was about ten, much too precise for me to have imagined it--so precise, in fact, that it took a long time to figure it out. It was about tuning, actually. In fact, it was about the difference between the tonic pitch in a Bach English Suite and the solidity of the tonic in a Chopin piece I was playing at the time. The Bach was, of course, not written for the piano. I didn't know that. I knew, however, that I could not "find" its pitch. The Chopin "Raindrop" Prelude, written with the piano in mind, was security itself.