HAs it ever occurred to you that all orchestral (and most small-ensemble) music is sightread, always? And all them mediocre blues are played from memory, ain't they? RT
>I suspect his other 4-5 Haydn sonata (sightread) would have been just as > mediocre as sightread music usually is. > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I strongly agree with Roman of his comment below! >> >> Arto >> >> On Thu, 4 May 2006, Roman Turovsky wrote: >> >>> > Hmmm.. Tab may be hard to memorize (don't know - never tried), but >>> music >>> > isn't, lol. IMO, if you need to read to play in performance you don't >>> know >>> > the music and you might as well just program it into a sequencer >>> (which >>> > can read it much more accurately than you can). >>> Lute music is not exactly "green onions", you know..... >>> That's why even our virtuosi like to read as they play. >>> Not everyone thinks that memorization is such a wonderful thing. >>> Svyatoslav >>> Richter once said that if he weren't forced to play from memory he >>> wouldn't >>> be stuck with his limited [sic!] repertoire. He would have liked to play >>> 5-6 >>> Haydn sonatas in concert, rather than 1, but sightreading just wasn't >>> done >>> in the old country. >>> RT >>> == >> > > > -- > http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
