Fred Hersch Is A Beautiful Player. This Is An Interesting And Well-written Expo Of His Recent Tribulations,

Fred Hersch is a beautiful player. This is an interesting and well-written expo of his recent tribulations, which I very much wish he hadn't had to go through.

Thanks to @concertmarvel for bringing this to my attention.

In a world of Taylor Swift... talk about heterogeny!

atonalitydotnet:

Elliott Carter: Two Diversions, performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

I like the player Balazs Szokolay very much. He gives quite the spirited reading of Bartok's Mikrokosmos. Of course what else are you going to do with it? Here is Vol. 6, No. 146, Ostinato: Vivacissimo.

I like this brief biographical assessment by Stephen Isserlis. I cannot say it represents my feelings exactly, as his Schumanning is much more mature, more ripened, than mine, but I'm in enough sympathy with the gist of it as an emotional level.

komangography:

violinplayah:

blogthoven:

nostalgiya:

In Grozny Central Park, February 1995.

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In Short: Splash

In short, I think the division of music into good and bad, even perhaps more shockingly into what one likes and what one doesn't like, is a bit of an ass puddle. This isn't to say you cannot or should not have an opinion if you like. Have any opinion you will. But opinions too are a bit of an ass puddle. Wouldn't it be a classic to find something a little more substantial to set one's foot to? These puddles, after all, dry up and blow away so soon, so soon. You didn't like that yesterday, today you might. It changed your life, now you could as like to flush it. I'm not even sure there is a proper way around these matters. Music is a special case. We'll have to speak more about why.