25-09-2023, 18:44
We have a local GP who is a music person and who would probably far rather be doing that than practicing medicine! Thoughts from Docvan in the lead up to a mini music festival he has set up ...
... "Famous American conductor Marin Alsop states that because the audience attend a concert, the performance will be different. She also says that because of the way an audience breath; their energy and their listening – that changes a performance.
This is why I do music. Studying composition and conducting, has taught me about the incredible power of music.
Karl Paulnack (director of music at Ithaca College, New York) in his opening address to freshman parents at the Boston Conservatory, explained how Olivier Messiaen composed the beautiful “Quartet for the End of Time” in a Nazi concentration camp. He questions as to why, when people were focused on mere survival, was art (in this instance music) important. He answers: “art is one of the ways in which we say – I AM ALIVE, AND MY LIFE HAS MEANING”. He goes on, that after the 9/11 atrocity, the first organized public event later that week that he could remember, was the performance of the Brahms Requiem at the Lincoln center.
Paulnack also says that musicians are expected to save the planet. He has no faith in governments; politicians; military forces or dogmatic religions. He ends his speech with: “as in the concentration camp and the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives” ...
... "Famous American conductor Marin Alsop states that because the audience attend a concert, the performance will be different. She also says that because of the way an audience breath; their energy and their listening – that changes a performance.
This is why I do music. Studying composition and conducting, has taught me about the incredible power of music.
Karl Paulnack (director of music at Ithaca College, New York) in his opening address to freshman parents at the Boston Conservatory, explained how Olivier Messiaen composed the beautiful “Quartet for the End of Time” in a Nazi concentration camp. He questions as to why, when people were focused on mere survival, was art (in this instance music) important. He answers: “art is one of the ways in which we say – I AM ALIVE, AND MY LIFE HAS MEANING”. He goes on, that after the 9/11 atrocity, the first organized public event later that week that he could remember, was the performance of the Brahms Requiem at the Lincoln center.
Paulnack also says that musicians are expected to save the planet. He has no faith in governments; politicians; military forces or dogmatic religions. He ends his speech with: “as in the concentration camp and the evening of 9/11, the artists are the ones who might be able to help us with our internal, invisible lives” ...
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