Fascinating.
Pianist unfamiliar, a very skilled contestant at a high-level competition.
I'm watching her technique. I'm taking-in her orange dress, her smooth arms, her arched wrists and fingers.
The occasional audience foot-shift. Jerry-built background curtain. Cut-up stage. Compartmentalized room.
Low coughs. Dead Debussy. Human, all-too-human, context.
Gorgeous music.
What makes me hear something 'better' in what man composes than what I see of him moment by moment?
I want the transcendence. We do transcend. I do insist so hard.
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I have been in love with the "Clair de Lune" for many years. Looking at the video initially, I was a bit put off by the shoddy background. Does not this beautiful melody deserve a better frame? Within seconds, the transcendence occurred, and there was only the music. Just the lovely unmistakable melody, which has been my love for years.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to re-hear more complicated music. From Day One we're built up only a little, and most training stops far short of where it could go.
ReplyDeleteI've been lucky. Someone along the line thought it was good to go on, and somehow I agreed. What luck! (It's frightening that it's luck.)