tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449697140204377101.post788194317960358058..comments2023-04-22T10:55:19.894-04:00Comments on Liberated Dissonance: Happy Ives DayJoe Barronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16638252347181688694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449697140204377101.post-71759097173203506842014-10-22T13:13:33.191-04:002014-10-22T13:13:33.191-04:00Not that many, really. We weren't on the phone...Not that many, really. We weren't on the phone a long time. And I don't record my interviews, so the notes are typed in very quickly. But here are a few.<br /><br />On the performance, with Zukofsky, or the violin sonatas: "We prepared those for a long time. We spent a year on them. They’re very demanding pieces and I was young and very inexperienced with new music. After all that work, we performed them in a church in Brooklyn, with 15 people in the audience. I thought, 'Oh my god, all that work, and what a pity, there’s nobody here to here it.'"<br /><br />On how his interpretation of the Concord has changed: "I have to tell you, I don’t know. I don’t listen to my recording. I just practice whatever piece I play in whatever fresh way I can. Forty years later. I don’t know how I’m different, as a pianist, as a person. You are who you are, and life gives us certain lessons. You do grow, even from your teaching and your interaction with so many musicians. I think I fell more comfortable with it. Perhaps it's more expansive. I don’t really know. It’s like an old friend in a way, but it’s also a challenge. ... You'll probably know better than me if it's different."<br /><br />On Ives and Emerson: "Emerson was really a God to him. He's trying to express so many profound philosophical concepts. Maybe it's my favorite movement. [It's a] serious struggle with whatever he considered life's questions."<br /><br />On Dawn Upshaw: "Dawn did not ever have the kind of mindset that some singers had that you need a coach to learn a piece, that you shouldn’t do new music because is will ruin your voice."Joe Barronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16638252347181688694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4449697140204377101.post-76489386491733179902014-10-21T11:39:07.417-04:002014-10-21T11:39:07.417-04:00Nice interview with Kalish - any chance we could r...Nice interview with Kalish - any chance we could read the out-takes? I'll bet there's way more than you could put in the paper. Happy Ives' Birthday!john schotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313960961501577603noreply@blogger.com