tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post4788298759911848828..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: So it's not just listening ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-85238171435932941732009-05-03T07:40:00.000+01:002009-05-03T07:40:00.000+01:00Email received:I liked the gentle physical clevern...<I>Email received:</I>I liked the gentle physical cleverness of the distinction between lean-to and lean-back music. The downfall of the privileged position of classical music has been a sad truth for many people like me, and I have had to learn to live with the marketing factoid that only 3% of Americans love the genre. That sadness underlies some of the energy of the article. Let it be, but let it go. <br /><br />As for the joys of participatory music in whatever form, anyone who has sung in a choir, played an instrument, or held down a part of any sized musical grouping knows the sheer joy of making music, trying to make it well, and learning to serve something larger than the ego by making beauty with others. <br /><br />Unfortunately, for many of us we are in the working stage of our lives, a stage in which the ethereal joys of music-making have to take a lower place. But the article points out where many millions might look in retirement to avoid depression. <br /><br />Thanks for good words about that most excellent gift- music!<br /><br />Charlie FossPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-54873072216858985742009-04-30T15:21:00.000+01:002009-04-30T15:21:00.000+01:00Thanks for another really interesting chant post. ...Thanks for another really interesting chant post. Thought I'd add what I have just discovered from the world of Gregorian chant: having until recently successfully resisted the smash hit of the last few months (Chant: Music For Paradise) I found the latest edition just so lovely to look at I committed to buying it. And it's great (although Universal don't seem to care - this particular release, about the size of a DVD box, is in the shops but nowhere listed on the company website www.chantmusicforparadise). <br /><br />The monk's voices are young and virile, which makes a huge difference to the experience, as does the high quality of the recording. This is not repeat not the usual pensioner monks recorded with a stereo pair at the back of some church: the intense sound is so involving I now completely understand why this has been such a big seller. BTW it happens that there is a book (not booklet) bound in with this edition which I really liked as well, but writings by monks are probably off topic. <br /><br />Anyway, hope I can encourage the wary (you?) to try this. Something which has been at the top of the classic charts hardly counts as a "discovery" - but it has been for me.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06825080291035670474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-64708507938835471212009-04-30T15:05:00.000+01:002009-04-30T15:05:00.000+01:00Email received:Dear Bob,
I am the flutist on Lyle...<I>Email received:</I>Dear Bob,<br /><br />I am the flutist on Lyle's CD. I enjoyed reading your review. It helps me to see the work in a broader context. It was certainly a wonderful experience putting it together, watching it grow from rehearsal to rehearsal. We were just feeling our way along and are thrilled with the way it turned out.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />Susan PurintonPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-23961741970621365982009-04-30T13:34:00.000+01:002009-04-30T13:34:00.000+01:00Pliable - Thank you so much for this wonderful pie...Pliable - Thank you so much for this wonderful piece. You catch what it is we are trying to do, and your writing about it puts it in context in a way I hadn't fully appreciated.<br /><br />As a music therapist I try to engage, connect, or "get traction" with a client, because without that nothing much will be happening. Your "lean forward/lean back" descriptor is a great bit of shorthand for that. What I particularly like about it is that, to me, music has a lot to do with physical gestures creating sounds which then induce emotional responses in the audience, and "lean forward/lean back" is a physical correlate to that response.<br /><br />Along with everything else, you also picked up on how the packaging of the CD is done to be as helpful as possible. So often CD packaging is hard to read and use, and the same goes for a lot of music instructional materials as well. The music is the main thing, and everything ancillary to that should make the music more accessible rather than less.<br /><br />Since this is the first time most, if not all, of this music has been transcribed into Western notation, each CD is something of a seed of traditional Tibetan prayer music ready to be planted in new terrain. Thanks very much for letting followers of On An Overgrown Path know it's out there.Lyle Sanford, RMThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312150272934828223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-30648774712650941942009-04-29T13:13:00.000+01:002009-04-29T13:13:00.000+01:00Musicmind's blog is well worth checking out -
htt...Musicmind's blog is well worth checking out -<br /><br />http://mymusictech.blogspot.com/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-64828501600840248332009-04-29T13:05:00.000+01:002009-04-29T13:05:00.000+01:00Great blog post! Lean forward/back=great way to d...Great blog post! Lean forward/back=great way to describe the shift in music. I look forward to diving deeper into the links you provide here as well as I am an 'amateur Buddhist scholar' but teaching music is my profession.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06119217598369528623noreply@blogger.com