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...harmonic intervals of their musical system, which was based on Persian concepts and in turn served as the basis of modern Western music, reflected fundamental mathematical proportions that they believed were a reflection of the order of the cosmos?the music of the spheres. Is it possible that a C-major chord sounds sweet and "right" to every human ear because it has a transcendent, mathematical perfection? As De Waart puts it, "Perhaps 'our' music, based upon organic harmonics, is much more universal than we thought...
...Patterson remembers instructing “Robbie,” as his friends call him, to play a C-major triad at the beginning of his first lesson. Then he asked him the mysteriously simple question, “What is that?” Without missing a beat, Kraft replied, “That’s the chord, that’s the chord you hear out in the world, out in nature...
Just what effect, if any, did the filming of Inspired by Bach have on Ma's interpretations? You'd have to ask him. But anyone who watches Falling Down Stairs, the film on the C-major suite, can see how enthusiastically the cellist responds to Morris' fanciful choreography and hear how some of that unfeigned delight has made its way into Ma's rhythmically light-footed performance. Whether on CD or videocassette, it is the best of all possible introductions to Yo-Yo Ma's newly revised version of the Gospel According to Johann Sebastian Bach...
Glass's music adds the final layer to this psychodrama, and he responds with one of his most daring scores. From the arresting opening chords that symbolize the lurking spacemen -- an alien harmonic system that makes sense to them but not us -- to the striking stretch of C-major that underpins poor M.'s longings for a girlfriend, this primal scream of angst surges and soars on an electric current of inspiration...
...night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct a new sauce for that classic spaghetti western, Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. To Carol Fox, the formula for aesthetic and commercial success is as simple as a C-major scale. Says she "All I want is the best." - William Bender