Klarinet Archive - Posting 000221.txt from 2003/02

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:53:29 -0500

How's about if we could kind of BACK away from being
so stubbornly "set-in-our-ways", and look at things more
objectively?
Then, maybe once we have done that, and we can see
that NOTHING is that important, NOTHING is
etched-in-stone, then we might be open to all kinds
of new ideas?
Sue

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question

> It's absolutely true. The opportunity for a mathematician to do really
> creative work almost evaporates after the age of 30. They are simply
> too set in their ways, they begin ancestor worship, etc.
>
> Sir Isaac Newton, who was one of the best, did all of his great work by
> the time he was 17. And the greatest of them all, Alvariste Galois,
> died at 21 with only one paper to his name, but that one paper
> revolutionized modern mathematics.
>
> However, once these fabulous minds settle into middle age, they do some
> pretty good work.
>
> Dan
>
> Forest E. Aten Jr. wrote:
> > Dan,
> >
> > I recently listened to an interview on NPR with a contemporary
> > mathematician/author promoting his newest book. The book noted this
> > phenomena of "original" thought in younger minds. He documented this
using a
> > historical review of math breakthroughs and noting the age of the
> > mathematician at the time. It seems that the older the mathematician the
> > more "set in their ways".....a few anomalies...but not many in his
> > historical review.
> > I'll try to find the reference. It's been several months and I while I
was
> > intrigued, I wasn't listening well enough to remember the authors name.
> >
> > Forest
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Castelnuovo-Tedesco Question
> >
> >
> >
> >>Marlena wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Kk, I think u should go with what YOU want to do; play the C#s!
> >>
> > I
> >
> >>>mean, in general, if u play music as it is written, it almost makes u
> >>>fall asleep. U have to put yourself into it, change tempo, dynamics,
> >>>right? So I think this rule applies in this case.
> >>>
> >>
> >>That one should do as one wishes and have a completely unfettered view
> >>of how to perform is a point of view often expressed by young people who
> >>want to feel no constraint working against what they see is their
> >>artistic development. And that view has some merit because it tends to
> >>encourage independent thinking. As a result of thinking independently,
> >>the party, if intellectually honest, can go no where but to the place
> >>against which they are arguing so emotionally. So such eventually people
> >>wind up doing the very thing that they rebelled against.
> >>
> >>Several years ago, a young woman on this list stated explicitly that she
> >>was a modern person, unchained from all ideas of the past, and she
> >>intended to perform K. 622 in whatever way struck her fancy. I wonder
> >>what happened to her and if she has now become a flaming conservative.
> >>
> >>I see Marlena a few years from now telling her children and eventually
> >>her grandchildren that the traditional way is the only way. I do hope
> >>that her written skills get better, though. It is not easy to read what
> >>she writes. Punctuation Marlena, punctuation!!
> >>--
> >>***************************
> >>**Dan Leeson **
> >>**leeson0@-----.net **
> >>***************************
> >>
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> **Dan Leeson **
> **leeson0@-----.net **
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