I hope future parents continue to listen to classical at home and immerse the entire family in it. As Uchida says here, it must start at home first, then school. There is no other way. I see many parents today are forgetting and disengaging from it. The environment is all. May we never forget this unique gift to the world, and to human souls.
While I've been told I have great talent, I haven't dedicated enough effort to fully develop it. I feel like I've fallen short of my potential. Success isn't just about talent; it also requires hard work and dedication, especially music.
She is an amazing musician so I hate to be this dismissive but this is nonsense, and quite elitist. All speculation like this is. Music is for everybody, we can argue the merits of what we think is good and bad, but that is just subjective opinion. Also a bit sad because it implies there is a correct and incorrect way to play and listen to music. Although I am a bit odd in that regard because I know music theory but hate it for the fact that the concept of harmony is bias. "harmony" - "agreement of ideas, feelings, or actions, or a pleasing combination of different parts", this implies that if you enjoy disharmony you are wrong (and yes I know it is implied and not stated). Yet whenever I say this I get people chiming in saying I don't understand. I absolutely do, I get the science of what create the sounds music theory describes as harmonious, it's the fact the terminology is not correct. It has inherent bias within it. There are for instance many old Japanese instruments that were created to make a dissonant sound. Yet in my opinion there is a certain beauty to it, overly clean, overly taught and in my opinion emotionless singing (looking at you Justin Beiber👀) is aweful. The dissonance in some instruments in my opinion makes them more harmonious, and yet music theory tells me I would be wrong to suggest that. Again, it doesn't state it literally but it is implied by the usage of the word "harmony". I know I've just gone off on one, but it just drives me crazy that music still has these elitist concepts and barriers. Music is an art and should remain as free as possible, it should bring people together, nonsense about "is talent enough" or what is an insistence to use antiquated theory only pushes people further away.
Where are Sean’s socks? He is a bit ‘with it’ for a classical musician, but also a really great player. I suppose he’s the new John Williams. A nice selection of music. Well performed.
"You must be lucky." I got to agree with her. I'm lucky to be hired by employers who love Classical music a lot and paid me decent salary to keep pursuing piano studies!
I think it is also important to "feel" what the composer was thinking of. If there is background information about the composer when the piece was written, or just to hear the vibration of the air, and feel what the composer was thinking about
"If you want to express yourself by writing a poem, you are not a musician". I had to go back and listen again, to be sure I heard right. This is a terrible thing to say. She could add "In my opinion". I agree that the image of the musician or artist does not tolerate being connected to other forms of expression than that which is the main field of the artist, but that is about image and marketing. I find this statement very offensive.
