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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: Performers
Post Subject: PerformersPosted by Manuel on: 8/27/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote:

 

 Jordi wrote:

Let us take the example of piano. When speaking of virtuosity, many classical-only listeners who listen to Sviatoslav Richter, Josef Hofman, Busoni or Paderewski for example, and who think that these classical pianists are the last word in pianistic virtuosity are SADLY MISTAKEN.  In fact nothing could be further from the truth.  Believe me when I say this as I graduated with honors in composition and performance from The Juillard School.
If you are a limited only to classical listener who doesn’t just sit there drooling while following the notes with a stupid look on this face and instead decides to compare what he’s heard contextually with, to take a simple view, the contrapuntal coalescence of a great jazz pianist like Lenny Tristano or Thelonius Monk who understand meter and modal shift and tonal subtlety on a level that someone like Richter for example could only dream of, then you will have come to an understanding about music and its performance intricacies that few who listen ONLY to classical music will ever attain in his lifetime.

Thank you. My question was not to check your hydration method but to make sure that you do not talk about Audio in context some kind of Deep Purple, Pink Florid or ACDC music.

Rgs, the Cat


hi this is my first post here, I use to lok at the forum but never posted

I can´t agree about musicians being better than others just based on the music they play, to compare Richter or any classical pianist to Monk or any jazz pianist is nonsense, they play so different

timing is one of the basements of music, classical and jazz handle time in a very different manner
the first is much more rigid, the target could be thinking and subtlety. imagine the same symphonic orchestra with 2 different conductors, playing the same themes, one can be sublime and the other not so much.

I´d say that classical is composer-dependant and jazz is musician-dependant, when you listen a classical theme you now what you´re listening, there´s not free improvisation, but in jazz, every musician does it his own way

another idea is that black pianists tend to play the piano as a percussion instrument, while white pianists tend to play it as a string instrument.
when I say percussion pianists, think of Don Pullen hitting the keys, and string pianists think of Brad Meldhau.
or take Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, two different sides of emotion.

Also, being both, I´d consider Monk as a composer more than a performer, just like ... Rachmaninoff? ...or ... what about Paganini?   

sorry for the off-topic

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