While listening to Martha Argerich playing Kreisleriana by Robert Schumann, I realized all the great interpreter musicians adhere to the composer’s directions like GPS getting you closer to the brain of the dead writer. Sometimes figuring how to cross parts no longer working because GPS sometimes supplies an incorrect route, sometimes an old road is renamed because nobody wants to dignify Dundas anymore after realizing this or that blood on his hands. You can make educated guesses about the future if you imagine telling people, 200 years ago, about what was coming that they could not imagine. Like there is no way you could get a bunch of people in Vienna who were contemporaries of Bach to imagine there would be Skype, Satellites or solos by Santana but if you could go back and experience their disbelief, it might inform how to make guesses about the two hundred year world from now. Will music continue to sound like tossed off demos made by mechanically generated loops and arpeggios? Will it utilize more electronics and machine sounds? Environmental sounds? Will it continue to conform to verses and choruses? To being 2 – 3 minutes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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