mikebauer
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i think it's pragmatically real to actually hear something like the Busch quartet's recordings and have that tell you that there was a different sound at the time. just as a pre-war steinway's sound was sweeter and less analytic -- not more shoddily made or anything, just made for a different aesthetic.
i'm a composer, by the way, so all you say about interpretation is trivial -- basic to the understanding: that the problem with having your music performed is that it's performed by players with personalities of their own. sometimes that's as good for the composer as learning how a violist actually fingers.
but, what i'm getting at is that we've got this big music now, in huge auditoriums and stadiums, and what are people actually receiving as music? i think they're getting a Hammond organ experience, that gut-thumping swoon so beloved by drunks and losers.
today is now, but so is my understanding of how music is noise bent into melody. melody is everything, even in webern.
i'm a composer, by the way, so all you say about interpretation is trivial -- basic to the understanding: that the problem with having your music performed is that it's performed by players with personalities of their own. sometimes that's as good for the composer as learning how a violist actually fingers.
but, what i'm getting at is that we've got this big music now, in huge auditoriums and stadiums, and what are people actually receiving as music? i think they're getting a Hammond organ experience, that gut-thumping swoon so beloved by drunks and losers.
today is now, but so is my understanding of how music is noise bent into melody. melody is everything, even in webern.