Performance Quotes....
Here are the quotes from yesterdays rehearsal. I figured it would be a nice idea to post them here in case we feel the need to revisit them.
“Risk is a crucial element of communication through music. Just as truly creative musicians must be willing to be open, to examine their inner life, to throw aside familiar comforts and plunge into the unknown, so they must take risks during performance.”
“If there is to be communication with the listener, the musician's doors leading inward must stay open. Through this opening, the listener is invited into the reality of the musician. This involves risk for the performer. The inner world of the musician, the creative fount, is personal and sacred.“
“In a performance setting, there can be no monologues. Every note, every breath, each moment sends messages between musician and listener. To ignore this two-way flow of feeling and meaning is to relinquish artistry for ego-gratification.”
-Bela Bartok
“A musician just has to learn for himself, just by playing and listening. There is no one who can write down the feeling you have to have. That's from inside yourself. The music has to let you be, you've got to stay free inside it.”
“An abundance of technique should not be a means to an end but a way to allow the heart to expand freely.”
“Notation, the writing out of compositions, is primarily an ingenious expedient for catching an inspiration, with the purpose of exploiting it later. But notation is to improvisation as the portrait to the living model. It is up to the interpreter to resolve the rigidity of the signs into the emotion.”
-Pablo Casals
“The written note is like a straightjacket, whereas music, like life itself, is constant movement, continuous spontaneity, free from any restrictions.”
“Your playing must have conviction. It should show the measure of your belief in what you know to be true, to the point where you would stake your life on it. The inner fire must always show through. Play from the inside out; your sound should stem from the conviction of your soul. This is what makes vital music.”
-Philip Toshio Sudo
“Risk is a crucial element of communication through music. Just as truly creative musicians must be willing to be open, to examine their inner life, to throw aside familiar comforts and plunge into the unknown, so they must take risks during performance.”
“If there is to be communication with the listener, the musician's doors leading inward must stay open. Through this opening, the listener is invited into the reality of the musician. This involves risk for the performer. The inner world of the musician, the creative fount, is personal and sacred.“
“In a performance setting, there can be no monologues. Every note, every breath, each moment sends messages between musician and listener. To ignore this two-way flow of feeling and meaning is to relinquish artistry for ego-gratification.”
-Bela Bartok
“A musician just has to learn for himself, just by playing and listening. There is no one who can write down the feeling you have to have. That's from inside yourself. The music has to let you be, you've got to stay free inside it.”
“An abundance of technique should not be a means to an end but a way to allow the heart to expand freely.”
“Notation, the writing out of compositions, is primarily an ingenious expedient for catching an inspiration, with the purpose of exploiting it later. But notation is to improvisation as the portrait to the living model. It is up to the interpreter to resolve the rigidity of the signs into the emotion.”
-Pablo Casals
“The written note is like a straightjacket, whereas music, like life itself, is constant movement, continuous spontaneity, free from any restrictions.”
“Your playing must have conviction. It should show the measure of your belief in what you know to be true, to the point where you would stake your life on it. The inner fire must always show through. Play from the inside out; your sound should stem from the conviction of your soul. This is what makes vital music.”
-Philip Toshio Sudo
posted by Aaron Hilden at 5:58 AM
3 Comments:
i sooooo <3 Bartok. he's def one of my favorite composers. but yes... great quotes all together... have you considered the idea of collecting more to say in class? maybe not just of composers/musicians, but artists in general?
like, say.. "do what you feel you are, not what you think you ought to be. go ahead and be a bastard, then you can be an artist" ~Isadora Duncan
or maybe even funny ones?
like... "Never look at the trombones, you'll only encourage them" ~Igor Stravinsky
or perhaps just regular nice old quotes.. iunno...
again, i could go on... and i usually do... but im done... on this blog anyway! hahahaha
Likin' the quotes Colin. C'mon, include the one about the trombones! I should show you my sweet ones about how clarinets are "kings of the woodwinds". That's my favorite one.
ok so,im kind of late on posting a blog, but whatever. I really liked the fact that you showed us these quotes... because they are real and have true insight on what being a musician is all about. I don't know, its just kind of encouragement from the composer's themselves. yeah.
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