From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #163 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Thursday, November 11 1999 Volume 02 : Number 163 In This Digest: ----------------- Re: vertigo [James McGarry ] Re: vertigo [Songbird22@aol.com] Re: vertigo ["Tab Siddiqui" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:54:07 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: vertigo On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 Songbird22@aol.com wrote: > This is not related really (well kind of) but I have to say Glenn Gould > RULES... I am finally getting around to reading all of a great bio by Peter Oh he does... ...he was someone who greatly affected the way I look at music. > made and the idea behind it)... Gould was such a genius... it's odd b/c he > and Sarah are sort of similiar in a lot of ways (in terms of when they > started playing piano, they both dropped out of a music program--college--to > pursue music full-time, etc.)... anyway... I will gently disagree. That's wholely superficial, coincidental if you will. ... There's some old CBC footage from the 50's of Glenn explaining and playing the Goldberg variations. When he plays he's so lost in the music, there is no _him_, there's only the instrument and the music and he's part of both, but yet, at that point, not existent as a separate entity. His countenance is only vaguely human, but something greater. Lost in the notes, his mind hardly worrying about mundane tasks like breathing, his eyes are closed and, there is a demarcation between a then and a now where, something inexplicably wonderful is happening that can't be measured or well-described, but must simply be witnessed. Its that point at which the muse takes you, and there is, nothing, nothing else. This bright shadow, I have seen cross the face of Sarah several short times, and in increasing frequency and duration. It's beautiful, like an unpicked flower, or the way the sun hangs over the horizon, just an extra second to make sunset that particularly beautiful shade of red, its the sound of rain on a roof on a hot summer's day, that first kiss that brings the promise of more. It is an epiphany. A joyous, overwhelming moment of pure beauty. Brief seconds like that are what we should live our lives to see. There, there is the similarity to Glenn Gould. That rapturous passion that invades and engulfs the soul. I have been trying to capture that on film for three years now and one day... maybe I will... Glenn Gould (and Yehudi Menuhin) taught me that music was the most beautiful thing humans have yet created. Watching Sarah develop is like learning this lesson all over again, except, close up and personal. "...it seems to me there is no greater community of spirit than that between the artist and the listener at home, communing with the music..." Let us commune, folks, James. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:51:56 EST From: Songbird22@aol.com Subject: Re: vertigo James says: > I will gently disagree. That's wholely superficial, coincidental if you > will. ... There's some old CBC footage from the 50's of Glenn explaining > and playing the Goldberg variations. When he plays he's so lost in the Which is, of course, what I meant--that their are subtle coincidental circumstances they share--however didn't articulate properly. They are other things beyond just the two very general things I mentioned, but I'll have to post later after work... Jessica www.aquezada.com/jess | www.mp3.com/jessweiser ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:54:05 PST From: "Tab Siddiqui" Subject: Re: vertigo Julian wrote: >Well, just speaking from experience -- after you've played an >instrument >or been a musician for many, many years, one can pretty >much just >improvise a lot of stuff on the fly. It seems funny to say Yes, yes, I know *that* - after years of watching the guys in Fruvous and BNL improvise complete wordy, complex songs on the spot, I have ceased to gape at that feat. ;-) >this, but the untrained human ear can't pick up a lot of mistakes >that a >musician might incur while improvising, or even instances >where the >musician stops playing because he/she is lost! :) Totally - like James said, there so often instances when after a gig, the musician will say, "Oh, man, this was wrong, and that was wrong," but no one in the audience would ever even notice! That happens in most art - for example theatre, where actors mess up cues and lines but are so well-trained/rehearsed that they're able to cover it up. >For example, during Sarah's CD release party, one of the cellists got > >completely flustered and lost, but nobody seemed to notice; she just > >pretended she knew what she was doing and it sounded fine. Sometimes >if >you're good enough you can just make stuff up in the correct key >until you >find your place. :) I remember that - you wouldn't even have been able to really tell she was lost, save for the fact that she starting laughing a little at herself. ;-) - - Tab :) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #163 *******************************