Thursday, January 06, 2011
"One and one makes - one"
Arvo Part, at a loss for inspiration, went outside into the snow one morning and asked the cleaner: "What should a composer do?" "Well, he should love every note," was the reply. "No professor had ever told me something like that," Part said, and this single sentence crystallised his thinking.
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Never heard or read that before. Thanks for it.
A favorite composer of mine. And certainly my favorite Estonian one.
orionse,
Geof
That's a great story. When I studied with Louis Andriessen, he'd sometimes look at a whole note filling an entire bar of 4/4 and say, "That's a bourgeois note," meaning that it sat, full and self satisfied, not really doing anything. I think I prefer the lovingkindness approach to notes.
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