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David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on January 10, 2009, 02:07:43 am ---did you see the interview Patrick Swayze did the other day? it was sad too...
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I didn't see it Jess. I read about it on AOL and they had a video, but since I'm on dial-up I couldn't watch it. Maybe it is better I didn't watch it. My heart goes out to him. And he's so brave about it too! :(
injest:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 10, 2009, 02:11:27 am ---Fiona got me to thinking about music. I've been thinking a lot about it for the past hour. I don't know about other types of music (although I suppose it is true in those cases too) but at least with Baroque and Classical music, the music really tells a story. I think most people who love Classical music would agree with me. But it's not a story with words. It's not even really a story meant for the mind. It's a story meant for the heart. Through music, the composer tells us a story. But if we try to interpret the story in our minds, our brains don't quite get it. But our hearts do. So we listen to the music with our ears, our ears hand the music off to our brain, our brain appreciates and enjoys the music and then passes it to our heart. And it is in our heart that we understand and enjoy the musical story.
When I play music, I often feel like I am cheating, because I get to tell the story even though I didn't write it. For some, this is an honored position I suppose, but I always like to remind everyone who actually created the tale in the first place. I am simply telling the story through my instrument.
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I told Andrew that listening to popular music compared to classical music is like the difference between seeing a vase of flowers and walking thru a huge garden...wandering the paths and finding new things around each turn...
injest:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 10, 2009, 02:13:35 am ---It was really scary when I saw it Jess! I don't think Dad would have ever noticed it with his failing eye sight. :-\
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no and he might not have been able to help himself if it HAD caught fire!
injest:
--- Quote from: DavidinIndy on January 10, 2009, 02:15:11 am ---I didn't see it Jess. I read about it on AOL and they had a video, but since I'm on dial-up I couldn't watch it. Maybe it is better I didn't watch it. My heart goes out to him. And he's so brave about it too! :(
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yes. it was very heart wrenching..
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: injest on January 10, 2009, 02:16:59 am ---I told Andrew that listening to popular music compared to classical music is like the difference between seeing a vase of flowers and walking thru a huge garden...wandering the paths and finding new things around each turn...
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That is a very beautiful description Jess! And it's very accurate! I didn't realize you love classical music! Now we have even ANOTHER thing in common! :D
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