tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post3464367574640900229..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Not Listening to the PerformanceBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-16642813584472099672013-11-24T06:16:09.948-06:002013-11-24T06:16:09.948-06:00Thanks for the link. I did a post on last year'...Thanks for the link. I did a post on last year's list:<br /><br />http://themusicsalon.blogspot.mx/2012/12/highest-paid-musicians.htmlBryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-85697245523286489012013-11-22T14:45:41.876-06:002013-11-22T14:45:41.876-06:00http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2...http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/11/19/the-worlds-highest-paid-musicians-2013/<br /><br />Thought you'd enjoy this haha! Augustinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-91642613717531511422013-11-21T06:45:21.682-06:002013-11-21T06:45:21.682-06:00Thanks, Buxethude! I have certainly heard of the C...Thanks, Buxethude! I have certainly heard of the Czech Baroque composer Zelenka, but couldn't even recall if I had heard much of his music. After listening to a couple of samples, it seems clear that he is one of those numerous, capable Baroque composers. If it weren't for Bach, working just down the road in Leipzig, we would probably know him much better. He certainly seems to be as fine a composer as, well, Buxtehude, for example!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-68472825739951916142013-11-20T20:05:07.017-06:002013-11-20T20:05:07.017-06:00Majorly off-topic: I wonder if you've heard of...Majorly off-topic: I wonder if you've heard of Jan Dismas Zelenka (http://convozine.com/music/14756). Baroque composer and Bach contemporary. Just discovered him - quite a delight! Buxtehudenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-5400987760087312902013-11-20T07:08:10.516-06:002013-11-20T07:08:10.516-06:00Welcome to the Music Salon, Damián. I can't pr...Welcome to the Music Salon, Damián. I can't promise to read the book by Christopher Small as I am trying to finish a string quartet at the moment! I see that there is another, more-recent book by him that also looks quite interesting: "Musicking". I am not unfamiliar with the basic idea, though. In another post, I argued exactly as he does, that music is something you DO: http://themusicsalon.blogspot.mx/2012/01/experience-of-music.html<br /><br />The idea of music as an "intentional object", which comes from the work of Roman Ingarden on the ontology of music, is a solution to the problem of just what is a piece of music? A copy of the score? A particular performance? Or rather a somewhat more abstract entity that joins all copies of the score and all performances together?<br /><br />Without performers, music would simply not exist. Their role is far more important than being merely re-creators of a fixed score. When I mentioned those different pianists and said that they all do a pretty good job, I was quite sincere! I could have said they do a marvelous job. But my main motivation is still to hear the piece of music. This is because I am a composer. What I suppose I was doing in the post was to give some insight into the way composers look at things.<br /><br />As for having a distaste towards the classical music tradition, I wonder what tradition it is that he prefers?Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-32105100467842618852013-11-20T01:05:48.710-06:002013-11-20T01:05:48.710-06:00I'm going to go on a tangent here, but it'...I'm going to go on a tangent here, but it's fairly related to this article: have you read anything from Christopher Small? I'm currently reading one his books, "Music for the Common Tongue", for my African-American Music class, and I can tell you, he has quite a distaste towards the classical music tradition (i.e. the concept of music as being a preserved "object" rather than a ongoing creative "process", the performers having little role in the creation of the music, simply being interpreters of the composer's ideas)<br /><br />I would recommend you read said book, for I would like to see how you would react to his arguments about classical music (and its inherent problems).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680305506707205320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-69088804039600015952013-11-19T11:54:23.421-06:002013-11-19T11:54:23.421-06:00Oh absolutely! Sometimes you hear a performance th...Oh absolutely! Sometimes you hear a performance that just knocks you out.<br /><br />Now there's an idea! I have hardly mentioned Britten. I have given several performances of his song cycle Songs from the Chinese and have studied his Nocturnal for guitar a bit.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-10072552712833719972013-11-19T11:51:04.873-06:002013-11-19T11:51:04.873-06:00I agree with you on this one. I usually don't ...I agree with you on this one. I usually don't care about who the performer is as long as it's well played. Sometimes though I find versions I prefer. <br /><br />By the way, are you going to write some about Benjamin Britten? Much focus in classical music world on Britten to celebrate that he was born 100 years ago.Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08084578675339015204noreply@blogger.com