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.
Takes chutzpah to fiddle with something Bach perfected, but he does a good job.
ReplyDeleteIt 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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