Needless to say, I much prefer the little Feldman said to the lot others have to say all the time... BTW: how can one know too much? Did you go through that experience and how did you get rid of your learning so successfully? danyel
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "danyel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:13 PM Subject: Re: urinals and publishers (Re: composers style S) > > bit is, to put your tools to a good use. And to use the proper tools. In > > that respect I agree with da Vinci, extending his line of thought to dismiss > > oil painting in favour of Chinese ink on paper works and dismiss all > > painting in favour of music and dismiss all physical music in favour of > > imaginary music. The most noble art would be to know everything and do > > nothing (as Morton Feldman's grandmother used to say). > In my family it is the other way around. Unfortunately it is hard to get rid > of accumulated knowledge. > As to Feldman, he knew too much, and did little, appropriately for someone > who had little to say. > RT > -- > http://polyhymnion.org/torban > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
