Klarinet Archive - Posting 000378.txt from 2002/02

From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tony Pay's important comment
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:52:13 -0500

Roger S. wrote:

<snip>

>Stravinsky is alleged to have claimed that music was powerless >to express
anything at all.

Yes, Stravinsky actually did say that in so many words.

His followup statement: "It (music) can express itself, only. And, it does
so most eloquently... eloquently." suggests that implicit in his
pronouncement was the notion that music was powerless to express not
"anything at all," but anything 'extra-musical'.

Kent K.

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