Yes, the wrong note school. I swear, if Bach was alive today, he would be saying, “Why are they intentionally playing the wrong notes?” It reminds me of Glenn Gould (made his reputation playing Bach on the piano) who abhorred playing live because he believed the audience were there to see him make mistakes, like they would be there to see a person fall while walking on a tight wire. Later, in his career he started to play modern pieces (Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, etc.) and I think there was almost a relief that he experienced, a liberation of sorts. If you screw up some notes in performing a modern piano piece, who can tell! The audience would surely not! It's all gibberish in their minds anyway. So Gould seems to be off the hook of his own neurotic hang up with performing. This is just a theory I have about Gould, but if you see him play these pieces, he seems more relaxed. He's embraced his shadow, in Jungian terms.
Another VW story is that, when a budding composer of the wrong note school had proudly just shown him his latest piece, he said to him "should a good tune ever occur to you, don't hesitate to write it down" !
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@Orphan of Babylon That's very clever. Reminds me of what Mark Twain reputedly said about Wagner's music : "It's better than it sounds."
That reminds me of a well-known quote of Vaughan Williams concerning dodecaphonic music (he was famous for his abhorration of the new musical trends). He described 'note row' or 'tone row' to rhyme with cow! Also, he referred to the serial composers as the 'wrong note school"
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Very Good Orphan! I think they are forgetting where they are, and who they are talking to.
Yes, the wrong note school. I swear, if Bach was alive today, he would be saying, “Why are they intentionally playing the wrong notes?” It reminds me of Glenn Gould (made his reputation playing Bach on the piano) who abhorred playing live because he believed the audience were there to see him make mistakes, like they would be there to see a person fall while walking on a tight wire. Later, in his career he started to play modern pieces (Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, etc.) and I think there was almost a relief that he experienced, a liberation of sorts. If you screw up some notes in performing a modern piano piece, who can tell! The audience would surely not! It's all gibberish in their minds anyway. So Gould seems to be off the hook of his own neurotic hang up with performing. This is just a theory I have about Gould, but if you see him play these pieces, he seems more relaxed. He's embraced his shadow, in Jungian terms.
Yes I was feeling a little sarcastic .
That reminds me of a well-known quote of Vaughan Williams concerning dodecaphonic music (he was famous for his abhorration of the new musical trends). He described 'note row' or 'tone row' to rhyme with cow! Also, he referred to the serial composers as the 'wrong note school"
Very Good Orphan! I think they are forgetting where they are, and who they are talking to.