This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.
From Esa-Pekka Salonen
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older.
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
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