Notes From A Studio
An Online Journal
April 29, 2016
Here is a collection of sayings, bon mots, brief observations about music that I’ve collected over the years. Perhaps some of them will speak to you…
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.
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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
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The entire pleasure of music consists in creating illusions, and common sense is the greatest enemy of musical appreciation.
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What gives music its universal appeal is the very fact that it is at the same time the most subtl...
April 16, 2016
Welcome to my new online journal, Notes From A Studio! In it, I will, from time to time, share my thoughts about music in general, and the piano in particular, with anyone who happens across it.
Why the title? Since I am writing it in my studio, it seemed like a clever idea to incorporate the dual meaning of notes – things jotted down, noted – and notes sounded on a piano. The title also brings to mind memories of walking down the street and coming randomly upon the sound of a musical instrument being played. There’s something magical about the unexpected experience of hearing a piano, violin or someone singing coming from a home. Here is a lone voice, practicing perhaps, or playing for their own enjoyment. I am an ‘auditory voyeur’ hap...