“What we need is classical music radicalism. Classical music is about making great, challenging and rewarding music. It is not about chasing audiences. If the audience comes, that is great. If it doesn’t come and a financial crisis ensues, the current bloated celebrity-centric business model will have to go through a painful (for some) but…
Home August 25, 2016 4 posts
When the Sideshow is the main show
Have you ever thought anout what do all the manmade creatures of the amusement parks do at night?Do they come to life? Would they, do they, get upset? Of how they are treated. Do they have feeling and thoughts of rebellion and overtaking their “masters”, the human? How loud, or how silently and steely creepy…
Seeing the movement, imagining the sound
We are about a week into the 48th Darmstädter Ferienkurse… Although never being able to respond and physically be present here for the Ferienkurse, his spirit and music, and influence, still manages to echo, through continuous mentions and performances of his music… So somehow sharing a silent recording of Schoenberg conducting Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4,…
The Force of Fure
Have you ever been inside of a glacier? How about being a Turritopsis dohrnii frozen within an iceberg of a glacier. An iceberg that is further going to melt. That is melting. And when absolutely melted, you, this practically immortal jellyfish, are ready to restart the new cycle of your life… with taking a breath. …