Although Beethoven could sit down and compose easily,his really great compositions did notcome easily at all.They cost him a great deal of hard work and he always found it hard to satisfyhimself.When he was 28,he began to notice a strange noise in his ears.As it grew worse,hewent to ...
Capitalism It makes me feel about as low as asap makes me feel as if someone is warning me a snake’s in my path only it’s a pretty snake I’m in need of to make my life whole there are so many kinds of us coming in various versions of ourselves and one another there is, for...
Beethoven could apparently still hear some speech and music until 1812. But by the age of 44, he was almost totally deaf and unable to hear voices or so many of the sounds of his beloved countryside. It must have been devastating for him. ...
Yes, the all important computer. I have an old computer that I built sitting below me. I also mounted a monitor above the piano so I would not need a desk. Now for the dramatic part.Turn off the computer when you compose. What?!?!? Yeah I said it. If you really want to get do...
ERICSSON: If you compare the kind of music pieces that Mozart can play at various ages to today’s Suzuki-trained children, he is not exceptional. If anything, he’s relatively average. Did you catch that? Mozart as a young musician, compared to today’s good young musicians, would be ...
In our tests, simply stating "Hey Siri, play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto" did lead to Siri playing the correct concerto in the correct order, but as with all things Siri, the command was not consistently reliable. The proclivity toward the use of foreign language titles for ...