Klarinet Archive - Posting 000166.txt from 2011/01

From: Richard Smith <richard.smith7@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] missing a day of practicing
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:22:28 -0500

Thanks for showing that my memory hadn't failed me. This is kind of fun.

It does seem odd that Art Blakey would be quoting a 19th century German
author, though he apparently did-- in Ken Burn's "Jazz". I looked up
"washes away the dust of everyday life" and found that some attribute it to
the last words of Pablo Picasso ("art washes away the dust of everyday
life"). Maybe Blakey heard the quote through some connection to Picasso who
got it from Auerbach.

Richard

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David B. Niethamer
<dniethamer@-----.net>wrote:

>
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Richard Smith wrote:
>
> > I'd say that person most credited with the quote is either Paderewski or
> > Menuhin, though a bunch more just say "a famous pianist". Based on that
> > unscientific inquiry, it sounds like the most likely source is
> Paderewski.
> > Alas no votes for Dizzy Gillespie or Anton Rubinstein.
> >
> Rubinstein quotes it in his autobiography "My Young Years." As a born Pol=
e,
> he may easily have learned it from Paderewski through some direct or
> indirect chain of teachers. It's a good enough quote to be passed on
> through many players and teachers, as your research shows!
>
> David
>
> David B. Niethamer
> dniethamer@-----.net
>
> p.s. I ran across a quote from the jazz drummer Art Blakey - "Jazz washes
> away the dust of everyday life.=94
>
> Its origin is:
>
> =93Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.=94 - Berth=
old
> Auerbach (German novelist, 1812-1882)
>
> Amazing that a jazz drummer of no great formal education would come across
> this quote and find it meaningful.
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