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Karl Moyer
Nov 16, 2018, 10:31:14 AM11/16/18
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Hi, fellow AGO-ers,
This one is “good enough” to share with you: part of a short article called “My Damascene Moment,” and the one-time author is one Josep Wicks, most likely an Englishman, given that the article is in a British organ music magazine:
Wicks writes, in part: “…..It was the utter glorious Gordon Steward who once said to me of playing anything written before the invention of the internal combustion engine that one should consider that those composes’ sense of “fast” was not what we think of now, that they lived in a world that was slower, and as such their “fast” music was conceived not at a 200mph equivalent but at most 50 mph or so ….It suddenly allowed the music time to say much more.”
Hmmm.
Karl
This one is “good enough” to share with you: part of a short article called “My Damascene Moment,” and the one-time author is one Josep Wicks, most likely an Englishman, given that the article is in a British organ music magazine:
Wicks writes, in part: “…..It was the utter glorious Gordon Steward who once said to me of playing anything written before the invention of the internal combustion engine that one should consider that those composes’ sense of “fast” was not what we think of now, that they lived in a world that was slower, and as such their “fast” music was conceived not at a 200mph equivalent but at most 50 mph or so ….It suddenly allowed the music time to say much more.”
Hmmm.
Karl
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