Miguel de Maria -> RE: Javier Conde ripping up Entres (Aug. 23 2015 22:40:20)
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Bill, there is more to it than that, though. I am no snob, but I do not want to hear the warhorses either. Maybe one or two. Classical music, like any art, needs new compositions of merit to be heard and established, or else it's nothing more than a living museum, musty and sadly nostalgic. That is why, yes, many object to the compulsive programming of Mozart. As someone said, "It may have been better had Mozart not lived"--because, despite how beautiful his music is, its very renown serves to suppress new creative works. There probably won't even be anymore concerts after this generation. I guess I will weigh in on the other topic. I don't see any need to call on players to perform their own stuff in concert. Most likely, he would be already be doing so if he had anything. I rarely write, myself; but a close buddy of mine writes a lot and only wants to perform his own stuff. He even quit a successful band because they didn't want to play any of his songs. Anytime he sees a guitarist, he'll say "yeah, but he isn't good at improvising, it's all worked out." That being said, I do think any of us can learn to compose. It starts with being sensitive to what we like about music, and taking apart and stealing all the bits and moves we really love. Then mixing it up with our own experience and putting it back together again. Thereby making something that pleases us. As to whether other people like it, who knows? One could be the next poet of the guitar--or perhaps only the next Edgar Guest!
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