Comments on: Stars, Waves, Acorns

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:18:32 +0000

… or a Spartacus Sonata, either. Too bad; it could have featured a music video with Kirk Douglas spliced in to play the piano for a few vignettes.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:11:40 +0000

Well, I think that there are true metaphors, but I guess I’ve never thought that ‘lives on through music/writing/etc’ was very apt. Can you really interact with a musical work? Of course, I’ve also had the experience of finding the lived-in nooks and crannies, the evidence of life, in a work left for the performer and listener, but this is like an archaeologist finding old letters to so and so, or the key left under the reed-mat for Aelfraed, and thinking it is for her. Aram’s works still enrich people, but if I needed to decide whether he was metaphorically dead or alive, I’d go with dead, because, for example, you’re not going to be able to commission an acorn heaven sonata from him, and nothing about his works is going to change, but rather people and culture change around them. Lack of change and growth is as dead as dead can be, I think. Tragic!

-S

By: Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:37:47 +0000

Well, he lives on through his music, right?

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:49:12 +0000

Whether Aram Khachaturian is living or not is contextual?

-S

By: Samantha G.

Samantha G. — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:13:26 +0000

Funny coincidence upon a coincidence… There was a red squirrel running up and down the pine tree outside MY window today (though I was playing Mendelssohn, rather than Kirchner). Finally, out of desparation, the little furry maniac flung himself against my door. Wonder what the significance of this is…?

By: Penny

Penny — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:33:38 +0000

A fun coincidence: in the beginning of your Kirchner on Thursday night, a red squirrel was dancing up and down the pine tree outside the window behind you. It was when the music was still rather jolly, and it seemed very appropriate. The squirrel left, of course, when the music became more pensive… perhaps to contemplate its existence… or to find an acorn.

I enjoyed your playing and was bummed about the cut.

By: Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:18:40 +0000

It appears, Alessandra, that I have thereby declared Aram Khachaturian one of the greatest living musical geniuses. Hmmm. I knew I would come to regret that bit of bravado on the blog. Everything is contextual.

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:53:22 +0000

The music for the scene of the heavenly acorn gates was written by Aram Khachaturian and comes from his ballet “Spartacus” (its original title is “Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia”).

I believe that with your fixation on the beauty of waves, you should come to the lovely state of Florida where they can be found in abundance. Especially in the Clearwater area. ^_^

By: Oh Yes at think denk

Oh Yes at think denk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:17:18 +0000

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