Klarinet Archive - Posting 000663.txt from 2002/09

From: w9wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] Who said it?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:44:52 -0400

<><> Mark=A0Charette wrote:
That's too easy, Bill. How about a hard one? (Standards of the piano
repertoire, some of which every player of reasonable caliber learns at
some time or other - Mendelsson's "Songs Without Words")

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"Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in
mind, I would not tell anyone, because the same word means different
things to different people. =A0 Only the songs say the same thing,
arouse the same feeling, in everyone --- a feeling that can't be
expressed in words."
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Yes, but you sleight the extent of your knowledge. <smile> Knowing a
piece of music doesn't mean that a person knows what the composer said
about it.

....anyway, the quote caught my attention because of the complete
reversal.

Cheers,
Bill

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