this is like the way I write about pieces I enjoy, too, and it makes me feel giddy to read another's rambles that I feel in my soul (though I haven't listened seriously to this particular piece yet. Time to fix that!)
As with your book, I love reading about the deeper story a piece has to tell, especially apropos it’s composition. The appreciation for the way a composer plays within the framework of music theory always leaves me feeling awe and also envy because I wish I understood it all even a fraction as well as you do!
Here for the partita. I find myself forever apologizing to Bach. I'm never sure what he wanted but know however I'm playing isn't it. Sometimes I feel like my entire musical life is an apology to Bach.
This inspired me to read through the whole Partita again for the first time in a while, and in fact it feels like every movement of it begins rather unassumingly, as if the whole suite is a warmup for the complete set.
I sent this to my piano teacher saying that except for the waking up in bed with an opera singer part, it would be the perfect thing to share with her students attempting the first partita (except for me and one other person, her students are quite young). But I liked that part. And as a former mezzo (those days are gone, alas), I felt the vocal warm up part literally viscerally!
Brilliant, but please tell me there’s video of the “nicely done dance.”
i mean, there could be
this is like the way I write about pieces I enjoy, too, and it makes me feel giddy to read another's rambles that I feel in my soul (though I haven't listened seriously to this particular piece yet. Time to fix that!)
As with your book, I love reading about the deeper story a piece has to tell, especially apropos it’s composition. The appreciation for the way a composer plays within the framework of music theory always leaves me feeling awe and also envy because I wish I understood it all even a fraction as well as you do!
thank you…
"Acid reflux of the soul" is a keeper, lol.
fellow obie 91 here. love reading your stuff.
Here for the partita. I find myself forever apologizing to Bach. I'm never sure what he wanted but know however I'm playing isn't it. Sometimes I feel like my entire musical life is an apology to Bach.
i’d argue he wants your devotion more than your apology
This inspired me to read through the whole Partita again for the first time in a while, and in fact it feels like every movement of it begins rather unassumingly, as if the whole suite is a warmup for the complete set.
I sent this to my piano teacher saying that except for the waking up in bed with an opera singer part, it would be the perfect thing to share with her students attempting the first partita (except for me and one other person, her students are quite young). But I liked that part. And as a former mezzo (those days are gone, alas), I felt the vocal warm up part literally viscerally!
i could put on a more chaste beginning i suppose for young people! :)