tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post6937874044688336421..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-72801547826014581162015-12-28T16:22:13.996-05:002015-12-28T16:22:13.996-05:00I understand, but for me there has never been any ...I understand, but for me there has never been any greater joy and satisfaction in life than giving a <i>successful</i> performance. Success being measured by how I felt about it at the time –– not by "audience reaction."<br /><br />I hasten to add it only happened a small number of times.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-25853661239675242982015-12-28T07:37:34.585-05:002015-12-28T07:37:34.585-05:00I have found that, as a church organist or a chori...I have found that, as a church organist or a chorister, I couldn't fully appreciate the music because I was too busy striving to get the audience to appreciate the music.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34447193708619700892015-12-28T06:31:28.260-05:002015-12-28T06:31:28.260-05:00To do ANYTHING well that's really worth doing ...To do ANYTHING well that's really worth doing always requires a great deal of hard work, AOW, –– but that should never show in any successful performance. <br /><br />At any rate, there's no financial incentive to devoting oneself to either the performance or the composition of serious music. If one does not love it with all one's heart, strength and mind, it would be best to stay away from the field altogether.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-48104206555414490562015-12-27T16:56:20.741-05:002015-12-27T16:56:20.741-05:00Singing in a chorus such as the Choral Arts Societ...Singing in a chorus such as the Choral Arts Society of Washington is <b>hard work</b>. 'Nuff said.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-74421250975418278212015-12-27T15:01:23.766-05:002015-12-27T15:01:23.766-05:00I disagree, but haven't sufficient energy to w...I disagree, but haven't sufficient energy to write the dissertation it would take to tell you why. FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-43565117131435631162015-12-27T14:59:47.997-05:002015-12-27T14:59:47.997-05:00Obviously you don't know our Ducky, Aggie.
I...Obviously you don't know our Ducky, Aggie. <br /><br />I'm glad you appreciate Messiah, of course, but WHAT ABOUT the PART I POSTED? And what about Myra Hess's superb transcription of Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring?<br /><br />We post wonderful things here in good faith ALL the TIME, yet most choose to ignore them and try to talk about something else.<br /><br />I'm not going to pretend it doesn't annoy me, but it mystifies me even more.<br /><br />Happy New Year!FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-63650623426658383802015-12-27T11:12:06.144-05:002015-12-27T11:12:06.144-05:00Maybe Ducky meant exactly what he said: that the A...Maybe Ducky meant exactly what he said: that the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIp_sWpytUg" rel="nofollow">Amen chorus from the Messiah</a> is very beautiful and moving. And it is. Perhaps it is you who is being flippant by assigning negative motives to his comment? Amen.Agnes Dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIp_sWpytUgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-32679927876199837112015-12-27T08:29:31.435-05:002015-12-27T08:29:31.435-05:00Sounds like AoW might have been saying the same th...Sounds like AoW might have been saying the same thing... <br /><br />...that she couldn't <i>appreciate</i> it until after her 'singing it' days were 'over'.<br /><br />Channeling/living the 'god' is a little different than merely listening to it. You don't get to feel the 'Amen' until the last note is sung. ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-48555218790054806302015-12-27T08:15:06.555-05:002015-12-27T08:15:06.555-05:00With all due respect, AOW, I'm very much afrai...With all due respect, AOW, I'm very much afraid our Eternally Adversarial Acquaintance was trying to say in his characteristically flippant, sarcastic way that he liked Messiah best when it was OVER.<br /><br />Forgive me, if I misjudge you Ducky, but that is the way you come across at least 85% of the time, so naturally we've come to expect it of you.<br /><br />Best wishes for 2016 anyway. Believe it or not we like you, even if it is in spite of yourself. ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-1687848292447865132015-12-27T07:21:44.354-05:002015-12-27T07:21:44.354-05:00Duck,
I, too, love the Amen. But as a chorister, ...Duck,<br />I, too, love the <i>Amen</i>. But as a chorister, by the time that we got to that chorus, I was exhausted and didn't appreciate the <i>Amen</i> until I had "retired" from the Choral Arts Society of Washington.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-74358555025716442082015-12-27T05:43:16.863-05:002015-12-27T05:43:16.863-05:00Greetings of the Season to you, Ducky! May the qui...Greetings of the Season to you, Ducky! May the quiet, contemplative prayerful, reverent aspects unite with the jubilant, extroverted, earthly and exhibitionistic to form a more perfectly balanced perspective on life for all of us in the New Year.<br /><br />AMEN! ;-)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-72136430423590828442015-12-27T00:15:10.027-05:002015-12-27T00:15:10.027-05:00I must be one of the few who is most moved by the ...I must be one of the few who is most moved by the <i> Amen </i> from <i>Messiah</i>.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.com