There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.
You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether it is the music of Bach or someone else.
I used to love Bach.
I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.