tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post5307774548553599858..comments2023-10-14T13:18:37.330+01:00Comments on angels in marble: In Mayhatfield girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-20896717185615344212012-05-24T12:55:07.296+01:002012-05-24T12:55:07.296+01:00The musicians are such a privileged lot. They are...The musicians are such a privileged lot. They are few, instantly identifiable, beyond being faked or talked-up (the real ones that is) equipped by their professional training to touch and change our souls, and they know their gifts and their cultivation of them so accurately - a self-awareness that is honed by their training; as is their awareness of others and others' responses to their art.<br /><br />And the greatest of them live forever, their creations reformed in each generation by their own kind for our enlightenment. <br /><br />Painters and sculptors do that too, but less directly because they do not have (or need) a band of performers to make them perceptible, concrete. Which has its drawbacks; the painters must rely on inexpert and uninformed eyes, usually. The musicians are always alive, responsive, informative, leading us, as audience, to understand.<br /><br />Which is why the death of a musician impoverishes us all as much as the death of a friend.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-14061664383835479532012-05-23T12:16:42.361+01:002012-05-23T12:16:42.361+01:00Ìt must be a very fine thing to be able to sing li...Ìt must be a very fine thing to be able to sing like that. How it lifts the heart.Elby the Beserkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15060519682739666145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-12290545498815672182012-05-22T13:32:27.933+01:002012-05-22T13:32:27.933+01:00In my view, Yacht, 17-year-old girls should not be...In my view, Yacht, 17-year-old girls should not be exposed to (ahem) Schumann and Heine as presented by handsome German singers. It results in lifelong commitment to all three.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956830097495837473.post-16598114238944883612012-05-22T10:19:43.037+01:002012-05-22T10:19:43.037+01:00Sob indeed.
I could never get worked up about Sch...Sob indeed.<br /><br />I could never get worked up about Schubert lieder, but without question Herr Fischer-Dieskau was one of the very greatest.<br /><br />R.I.P.Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.com