Posted by Llurpsie_Noodle on February 12, 2007, at 19:44:32
In reply to Revelation and Apocalypse » Honore, posted by Declan on February 12, 2007, at 18:47:31
Declan
there are certain pieces that I can only play in a certain frame of mind.Bach's Chaconne. Must come from a place where logic and emotion are one.
The changes in patterns, dynamics, textures, colors, must sound so inevitable that they are more a natural law than a human creation. The feeling that one gets when one sees the essential elegance of the natural world in it's little patterns and interactions and cycles.
When the Dminor opens into a quietly hopeful DMajor, it must sound like it was always there, but only uncovered for the first time. And when it is lost, it must be completely lost, as the Dminor section descends in stern domination, and eventually one realizes that the only source of power in the entire piece comes from the light in the middle. That without that Light, the piece is in the dark, and cannot ever be understood.
And I weep, esp. when my violin teacher told me that this is his anthem for leaving his Eastern Bloc homeland at the height of the Cold War, knowing that he would never be home again until he was in Heaven.
-Ll
This is why I will never "perform" the Chaconne. I can never play it the way I feel it, or think it. Every minute is exquisite agony as I mourn for the loss of sustain, the slightly rocky transition, the out-of-tune chord, the sadness that my bow cannot play a 4 voice chord as Bach's bow would have... and the tiniest victories always keep me coming back, hoping that one day I can play even a section well enough to get the Chaconne out of my head and out of my heart. set it free
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