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In the Thread: Instrumental music vs. orchestrated counterpart
Post Subject: On complexitiesPosted by mats on: 4/11/2007
Casals writes in his memoir how he came to appreciate the orchestra as the ultimate instrument.
Having said that, it is hard for me to imagine, that the command of the Muse to the conductor could ever be communicated thru all those professional musicians with the immediacy of a soloist with ten fingers on the keyboard. The enormous complexities of performing orchestral music that you point out, is quite moving. This kind of artistic pursuit seems pretty much guaranteed to fail, and yet musicians every night leap for that summit. When it works, I am sure the heavens open.
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