Why are not all musicians also composers? Or conductors? They know everything there is to know about music, some of them are walking wikipedia’s, but still, they don’t write music. Why? Sunday I was at an organ concert and it dawned upon me, that the music did not ‘play the room‘. We heard the best… Continue reading A musician is not a conductor is not a composer.
Category: Composers
Debussy
These quotes are written by Claude Debussy in his book ‘Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater’. I took some of them, because they made me think….I wrote down my thoughts just the way they came to me…and will probably rewrite them over time… On soloists The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like… Continue reading Debussy