Daniel Barenboim is a Music Director, as well as great musician. He was born in a family of family of musician and, surrounded by music, he started to think in music too!
Helped by a piano, he explains in Berlin the power of the music, its neglect and disregard nowadays.
The director says that the foetus start to hear just after one month and an half; but after birth, all the concerns of the human beings shift on eyes and sight. These days, the ears are closed, we tend to do this because of noises, cars, also some music.
But music, which is close connected with silence, plays a very interesting role in our lives: it gives us the possibility of travel with the mind, living us in mid air. When we listen a note and after that a break, our brains start to think about the possible continuations of the piece. It made ambiguity: ambiguity means doubtful, plenty of solutions. But in music, "the longer you hold back on the solution, the more interesting the whole thing become".
Carrying on the conversation, Barenboim plays some useful shot examples you may found here.
Nowadays, many factors influence negatively the music and also the way how playing classic music by nationals orchestra. Globalisation, cosmopolitalism are hiding the way of how music is should be played. There is need to adapt the way of playing on the situation where it is played. Classic music can survive only whether become essential in our life, we have to learn FROM it.
We go on in our life standing with things of the past. Music is one of those. "Music of today could not have been created and therefore cannot exist without the music of the past", says Barenboim. Everything, without any exception, have a life, everything flows. Music teach us about fluidity of life and nothing is completely fixed.
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