Musical thought for the day

[twickster]

“The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.” – Aaron Copland

[antonio107]

@twickster

“The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.” – Aaron Copland

I love it!

This is one I got from my Royal Canadian College of Organists newsletter. I’ve sent it around to my church choir and have it on my facebook profile:

“Of the arts necessary to life which furnish a concrete result, there is carpentry which produces the chair; architecture, the house; shipbuilding, the ship; tailoring, the garment; forging, the blade. Of useless arts, there is harp playing, dancing, flute playing, of which, when the operation ceases, the result disappears with it.” (St. Basil of Caesarea)

[WordMan]

I can dig that. What does that say about Mussorgsky - he sounds like a great man, walking from painting to painting at an exhibition (wiki link)?

:ducks and runs:

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

@twickster

“The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.” – Aaron Copland

Big talk from a composer who sounds like a little boy in a cowboy costume.

[Tethered_Kite]

“Get up from that piano. You hurtin’ its feelings.” Jelly Roll Morton.

[Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela]

Mozart was the inspiration of my youth, the desperation of my mature years, and the consolation of my old age.

• Gioacchino Rossini

[Exapno_Mapcase]

@twickster

“The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.” – Aaron Copland

Which is which?

[Equipoise]

I like

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“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture”

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[WordMan]

@Exapno_Mapcase

@twickster

“The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.” – Aaron Copland

Which is which?

Beethoven is the great man; his music is direct, visceral and majestic - the epitome of the Romantics. But you know that, I suspect - is your comment really about Mahler?