Takes chutzpah to fiddle with something Bach perfected, but he does a good job.
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Gringo
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Takes chutzpah to fiddle with something Bach perfected, but he does a good job.
It doesn't take chutzpah.Bach wrote "a truckload of music" for all levels of musicianship, from beginning piano to you name it. It doesn't take chutzpah for a beginning piano player to play from the Anna Magdalene book. It just takes an openness to acknowledge that music written centuries before the present is still good music- in addition to a work ethic sufficient to master the music. OTOH, perhaps it takes more chutzpah for an accomplished musician than a beginner, as the beginner is probably not as aware of Bach's reputation.
"Truckoad of music" came from my high school music history teacher, who was a professional jazz player before and after his teaching stints. As good a teacher as he was a musician- and anyone who can earn a living playing jazz is a pretty good musician. He is listed in Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians- not that he ever told his students this. I was a Bach fan from way back. When the music history teacher played an excerpt from Brandenburg Concerto #2, I was the person in the class who identified it as a Brandenburg Concerto.
Speaking of Simon and Garfunkel, back in the day I knew a guy in Berserkeley who claimed to have played in a band with Simon & Garfunkel when they were in high school in Queens. Years later I checked on the Internet, and the high school did match up. In addition, the guy did play guitar, so maybe he was not BSing.
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Takes chutzpah to fiddle with something Bach perfected, but he does a good job.
It doesn't take chutzpah.Bach wrote "a truckload of music" for all levels of musicianship, from beginning piano to you name it. It doesn't take chutzpah for a beginning piano player to play from the Anna Magdalene book. It just takes an openness to acknowledge that music written centuries before the present is still good music- in addition to a work ethic sufficient to master the music. OTOH, perhaps it takes more chutzpah for an accomplished musician than a beginner, as the beginner is probably not as aware of Bach's reputation.
"Truckoad of music" came from my high school music history teacher, who was a professional jazz player before and after his teaching stints. As good a teacher as he was a musician- and anyone who can earn a living playing jazz is a pretty good musician. He is listed in Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians- not that he ever told his students this. I was a Bach fan from way back. When the music history teacher played an excerpt from Brandenburg Concerto #2, I was the person in the class who identified it as a Brandenburg Concerto.
Speaking of Simon and Garfunkel, back in the day I knew a guy in Berserkeley who claimed to have played in a band with Simon & Garfunkel when they were in high school in Queens. Years later I checked on the Internet, and the high school did match up. In addition, the guy did play guitar, so maybe he was not BSing.
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