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Two Irish Tunes: corrected version of what was published in the spring 2012 Folk Harp Journal:
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Thoughtful quotes and writings
about
the study and performance and appreciation of music:
"The bottom line for choosing recital repertoire is to find
pieces
that affect you deeply, and that you know you can communicate with
expressive power." harpist Julieanne Rabens
"Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve
greatness." Ben Hogan
If the composer says in effect to the performer: "I do not care whether
you perform my music or not," we cannot argue the matter. But if he
indicates: "I want you to perform and respond to this music," then his
fundamental duty is to write his music so that it is accessible to
interpretation. When the performer cannot approach the composer's
meaning because of capriciously obscure notation, he may in effect say
to the composer: "Why should I bother to puzzle out your music?" -
Gardner Read
"Music is well said to be the
speech of angels" Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
"Music is love in search of a word." Sidney Lanier
"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting
unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious
arithmetic." Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Every note and nuance that is noted by a composer on the page was done
so thoughtfully. If you are careful in your interpretation of music
then you will be faithful to the composer's intent. You are free within
those boundaries to be creative." - harpist Barbara Ann Fackler
"A painter paints pictures on
canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on
silence." conductor Leopold
Stokowski
"Technique
exists to serve music, after all: rhythmic accuracy brings out the
energy of a dance, and an evenly controlled melodic line
allows
you to sing what lies in your heart." Isabelle Moretti at the opening
ceremonies for Harfengalerie Camac Berlin on September 26th, 2009.
"Music
should be vital, accessible, and artfully made. It should appeal to
performers by being playable and to listeners by being
intelligible." German composer, Harald Genzmer (1909-2007)
“If you want to understand art, you have to understand the
world;
in order to understand the world, you have to understand human beings;
then you will understand yourselves, and that is the key to everything.
That will make playing, composing, dancing less an exhibition of
unimportant skills in a society game, meeting with more or less
approval, blindly climbing up the deceitful ladder of success, but an
opening of your heart to the word and the world to your heart. And that
is what you came here for, that is what makes music one of the most
sublime emanations of the human spirit, that is what makes it
worthwhile to devote one's life to it. Looking back on my own life, I
recognize my good fortune in having had as my masters some real heroes
of music.” -Edward Steuermann, Convocation Address at the
Julliard School of Music on October 7th, 1964
"The
secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently
motivated, discipline will take care of itself." - Sir Alexander
Paterson
Thomas Stevens has written some
wonderful articles on the performance of
music.
Aimed originally at trumpeters, his insights are worth considering by
all who pursue music, whether at an amateur or professional level.
Start with his article on performance consistency and branch
out. Those labled "for trumpeters only" have valuable insights for all
musicains and are highly recommended.
