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.
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
If you put your hand on the piano, you play a note. It's in tune. But if you put it on the violin, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. You have to figure it out.
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