I dunno Steve, I think my desert island choice would be Prof. IMG doing Kopprasch No. 1 or Elvis doing "Hound Dog." Great music moves the soul, no matter what period it comes from. I always find the "good stuff" rewarding. Remember, there is a lot more bad music than there is good! Bach is probably more "academic" than Mozart and Mozart is probably more "emotional" than Bach. Now that I think about it, if I could only have ONE piece to listen to on the desert isle, I think I'd pick silence. Only one piece would drive me nuts because there is so much music I like! KB In a message dated 4/11/2006 11:10:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wrote: > Mozart is arguably the greatest composer to ever have walked > the face of this Earth. For a musician not to like Mozart > means only that the musician doesn't understand Mozart. to which Kendall Betts said: > Well, I agree with the second sentence completely but I think > J.S. Bach is arguably the greatest composer ever. He broke > the fertile ground and grew the first crops! Those seeded > everything that has come since. and Linda Sherman opined: > I think it's possible to admire a composition (or its > performance) on technical and esthetic merits, yet not connect > emotionally with the results. I think that's the response some > people, including myself, have to many of Mozart's works. I reply: If asked to answer the provberial question, "If stranded on a desert island with recordings of only one composer (or even with just a single recording), who/what would it be?" I would choose Bach, and not Mozart. My relationship with Mozart is something along the lines Linda described, by which I mean that if I have a choice of listening, I will choose Bach (the 1955 Glenn Gould 'Goldberg Variations' if I get only one recording), but if I am the performer, I prefer Mozart - if that makes any sense. I find Bach rather academic to perform while I find Mozart demands much more of me as an artist and is therefore much more rewarding to perform. And to Wendell Rider, I say, "but you didn't mention Don Giovanni!" -S- _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
