Comments on: A Wise Man Once Said http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/ The Official Site of Jonathan Biss Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Margarita Zaydman http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-173 Margarita Zaydman Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:49:01 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-173 It's always a treat to hear about what you're reading and how, if at all, this moves with (or relative to) your music-making . . . are you winding your way into Proust now? And Oe--I've just finished his Blake-inspired novel Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, where Hikari memorizes bird songs and rattles off K numbers . . . just yesterday, Tolstoy and Beethoven (have you read "The Kreutzer Sonata"? it was written at a time (1889) when T. was none too optimistic about music's potentially demonic effects) . . . not to grade too far into literature that explicitly engages music; the more thrilling resonances may well reside elsewhere. Margarita Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. --Wallace Stevens It’s always a treat to hear about what you’re reading and how, if at all, this moves with (or relative to) your music-making . . . are you winding your way into Proust now? And Oe–I’ve just finished his Blake-inspired novel Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age, where Hikari memorizes bird songs and rattles off K numbers . . . just yesterday, Tolstoy and Beethoven (have you read “The Kreutzer Sonata”? it was written at a time (1889) when T. was none too optimistic about music’s potentially demonic effects) . . . not to grade too far into literature that explicitly engages music; the more thrilling resonances may well reside elsewhere.

Margarita

Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

–Wallace Stevens

]]> By: JB Piano http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-184 JB Piano Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:26:51 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-184 Great Quote by Proust.. Great Quote by Proust..

]]> By: Sean Gower http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1124 Sean Gower Sat, 08 May 2010 14:11:14 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1124 Yeah but the piano needs the human being. Without the human being the piano would be nothing! Jonathan, by far I find you to be the most interesting concert pianist out there right now. Your one of the first professional musicians ive heard use the term "moved" to describe the music, which would seem to be the only reasonable answer in front of such beauty... I know this isnt the Schubert page, but I wanted to post some short writings on Schubert that I find extremely true and beautiful, I'd be interested to see what you think! Yeah but the piano needs the human being. Without the human being the piano would be nothing!

Jonathan, by far I find you to be the most interesting concert pianist out there right now. Your one of the first professional musicians ive heard use the term “moved” to describe the music, which would seem to be the only reasonable answer in front of such beauty… I know this isnt the Schubert page, but I wanted to post some short writings on Schubert that I find extremely true and beautiful, I’d be interested to see what you think!

]]> By: Sean Gower http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1125 Sean Gower Sat, 08 May 2010 14:18:05 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1125 Ok i guess links dont work so im just putting them as the website in multiple posts Ok i guess links dont work so im just putting them as the website in multiple posts

]]> By: Sean Gower http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1126 Sean Gower Sat, 08 May 2010 14:18:38 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1126 and finally... hopefully this works and finally… hopefully this works

]]> By: Sean Gower http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1127 Sean Gower Sat, 08 May 2010 14:25:18 +0000 http://jonathanbiss.com/home/2008/11/26/a-wise-man-once-said/#comment-1127 anyways not to overpost haha, but I find that Luigi giussani (the writer of those excerpts) expresses better then anyone else exactly what the human being longs for, "exasperates," which is precisely what music is. You seem interested in this so im interested to see what you think! anyways not to overpost haha, but I find that Luigi giussani (the writer of those excerpts) expresses better then anyone else exactly what the human being longs for, “exasperates,” which is precisely what music is. You seem interested in this so im interested to see what you think!

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