When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
Music is about the performance.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing.
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.
The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.
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