Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with these antics is threefold: they are aurally and visually distracting, especially in a room the size of the Kirkland JCR; they are didactic and insulting to an audience generally capable of appreciating Bach's subtleties on its own; and, most important, they are bound to distract a performing musician from his real business, which is to channel his expressiveness into the sounds he is producing. If instead it is trapped by some sort of external physicality, it is ultimately the music that suffers. This was the case with Buswell's slow movements, which for all his contortions seemed...
...first five piano sonatas, which he spins out in enthusiastic, masculine, superclassical style. This performance helps offset Gould's hyperbolical habit of denouncing Mozart in interviews ("Anyone who has to write 28 symphonies before he can write a good one can't be much of a musician...
...consider myself an extremely young man but a fairly old musician. How long I have played the cello is far more important to me than if I had reached the age of 150 because the years as such do not mean anything, but with the cello, not a day passes that I do not look for something new. I have played it for 58 years, and it is still full of surprises, full of adventures. Mine was made by Stradivari more than 250 years ago, but it stays forever young. How marvelously preserved it is! How beautiful it sounds...
...much that is composed today seems to be done with electronics, or kitchen utensils. The score looks like an engineering design, and you feel that, instead of a musician, you are an atomic engineer. Yet I hesitate to reject it. Beethoven and Mozart never heard the sounds of today-the ringing of a telephone, the roar of a jet engine starting. If they had, perhaps they would have utilized them in their music. The same goes for plastic art. Leonardo da Vinci never saw New York City at night. Rembrandt didn't see the vistas that our astronauts have...
...into new quarters in London's Pall Mall, not far from Buckingham Palace and only a few moments' trek from Trafalgar Square. Not that ICA has any intention of changing its way-out ways. Says Sir Roland Penrose, who has chaired the institute since its founding: "Painter, musician, poet, sculptor, actor, playwright, film director are all looking for ways of jumping into their neighbors' shoes-or at least running three-legged races with them. The new ICA gallery will encourage these trends...