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More than anything I want to remember being surrounded by friends and making music. That's not what I experienced last semester. It was constant fighting to actually get to the music, not just the fact that no one really wanted to play- just rehearse. Rehearsing is not music, rehearsing is a step to music and as such is not fun unless there's a point where you're all communicating and playing for each other. Kind of like a self- sacrifice of your own voice so that you can allow music to come through with other people.
I miss grabbing someone and pulling them into my practice room for duets- even if we were horrible. Most of all I miss the creativity that came with our combinations and ideas and aspirations. It was almost as if merely saying the dream were creativity enough for that moment.
I don't want to be stuck in classics- not the way I almost feel like I am here. I know that if I mention making transcriptions of pop songs then most people will look at me crosseyed. I know of one person who wouldn't. I want to be able to show that bass clarinet quartet playing Creep and have someone say, "Wow, that's awesome! Let's do something like that!" I want to talk about making a set of variations on songs by the Shins and secretly adding them to my recital... kind of like a modern concert fantasy. Old idea, new music to do the idea on.
In other words, I feel like Boston may be very musical and amazing... but it lacks creativity. It needs someone to come along and smack it, make it wake up from it's complacency with the music that is... and give it something new. And not new like electrionic music, or any of those things that have been done before... but trying to make a single musical life. Something that takes the two roads of American music and merge them into an entertaining experience.
Classical music can no longer exist the way it has existed in the past. That takes away the drive of what that type of music requires, innovation. Innovation, creativity, and a wide appeal to audiences is what it currently is lacking. Why write new lied if you're always going to be compared to Schubert? Why write Symphonies when it's already over done? Why not write music that plays with pop music?
I miss grabbing someone and pulling them into my practice room for duets- even if we were horrible. Most of all I miss the creativity that came with our combinations and ideas and aspirations. It was almost as if merely saying the dream were creativity enough for that moment.
I don't want to be stuck in classics- not the way I almost feel like I am here. I know that if I mention making transcriptions of pop songs then most people will look at me crosseyed. I know of one person who wouldn't. I want to be able to show that bass clarinet quartet playing Creep and have someone say, "Wow, that's awesome! Let's do something like that!" I want to talk about making a set of variations on songs by the Shins and secretly adding them to my recital... kind of like a modern concert fantasy. Old idea, new music to do the idea on.
In other words, I feel like Boston may be very musical and amazing... but it lacks creativity. It needs someone to come along and smack it, make it wake up from it's complacency with the music that is... and give it something new. And not new like electrionic music, or any of those things that have been done before... but trying to make a single musical life. Something that takes the two roads of American music and merge them into an entertaining experience.
Classical music can no longer exist the way it has existed in the past. That takes away the drive of what that type of music requires, innovation. Innovation, creativity, and a wide appeal to audiences is what it currently is lacking. Why write new lied if you're always going to be compared to Schubert? Why write Symphonies when it's already over done? Why not write music that plays with pop music?