I’ll just let these speak for themselves, aside from saying these are happy people (and some are a wee bit … um … interesting!):
so me and my friend were really bored one day and i decided to let him play on this really crappy marching oboe i had just sitting in the corner in my room. hes playing on an extremely old reed….
PLEASE …
Do not march with an oboe! Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.
Got it?
I read it on this YouTube video page:
It would be really interesting to schedule some sort of chamber concert tonight in a location that could handle the darkness. Would people listen differently if they couldn’t see? I’m certain so. Hmmm. Maybe I should have my oboe out and ready to play before I turn out the lights, and then just spend time on excerpts. Or even scales. I will, of course, be home alone. No one here to hear me but me.
That sounds like a country western song … and please excuse the gender change, but I hear a man’s voice in this one:
Oh, the Oboe Woes
No one in the house to even hear me
I’m sittin’ in the darkness all alone
They tell me that a man’s home is his castle
But I’m a’thinkin’ it’s not quite a home.
I still remember when she up and left me
All because I pulled out one sharp knife
You’d think she woulda known I played the oboe
Now here I sit, alone, without a life.
Cheers!
Some are suggesting that …
reading a what-to-listen-for guide before hearing a piece of music seems to make the actual aesthetic experience less pleasurable.
“Descriptions may interfere with the directness and intimacy with which listeners are able to experience a work,” writes Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis of the University of Arkansas. “It may distance listeners, or place them at a remove — as if they were listening through someone else’s ear.”
Thoughts?
I read it here.
Classical Music Thursday
1. classical music any time, anywhere
2. when I’m at a concert and I always think, “why don’t I do this more often?” because every single classical music concert I have ever been to has been a delight!
3. lying down on the floor for at least 15 minutes and letting classical music wash over me – a music bath! oh yes! totally refreshing, relaxing, and invigorating all at the same time –
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Read more of her reasons. 🙂
