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JanJan2
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(9/5/01 7:10:20 am)
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Brought to
tears
Have you ever been listening to a performance or a CD and been so
overwhelmed with the beauty of the music that you could do nothing
but cry? Last night listening to Truls Mork playing Rachmaninoff
Sonata (a CD I've listened to MANY times!), I just fell apart and
lost it completely. It wasn't just his magnificent playing, part of
it was realizing I'll never be able to play like that.
What
a piece. What a cellist. What a good cry. Anybody else ever been
affected this way? It seems that music will bring me to tears much
more often than art or literature. I wonder why that is. Any ideas?
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Cellover
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(9/5/01 8:36:48 am)
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Hello,
I agree with you that it's easier to be moved by
music than by any other form of art, although I have to say that I
have been brought to tears as well by the beauty of a painting or
sculputure or by a well-composed line of literature.
A reason
that music seems to affect you more is probably related to the fact
that it lasts longer than e.g. looking at a painting: once you've
seen it and "felt" it, it's over, whereas music (and hence the
emotion evoked by it) lasts longer in time.
Also, you are
unable to stop hearing the music whereas you *can* look away from a
painting, sculpture or text. That makes you more "defenseless"
against music compared to other forms of art.
Keep enjoying
your tears! ;-)
Cellover
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Corrina
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(9/6/01 4:54:01 pm)
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A friend of mine (male, I should add), has discovered what pieces
cause me to 'dissolve' - - he used to play the CDs, but now only has
to sing a certain phrase, and mine eye runneth
over.
Actually, what I find even more moving is when a
certain piece makes you shiver violently, but, of course,
exquisitely.
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RonH
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(9/6/01 5:19:32 pm)
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Yes,
definitely
My teacher and I have often been brought to tears with my cello
playing. :-)
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drcello
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(9/6/01 9:32:17 pm)
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Also, there are
pieces which IRRITATE!
Have you ever done a piece in orchestra that just irritated you no
end? I often get this feeling about atonal music of nonsensical
rhythm.
Marshall C. St. John
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ruthann
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Re: Also, there
are pieces which IRRITATE!
I get that way about the Swan!
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are pieces which IRRITATE!
Eva, here's your kindred spirit!
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Corrina
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(9/8/01 6:22:04 pm)
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Re: Also, there
are pieces which IRRITATE!
1) Karelia Suite
2) 3rd Mvt. Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
2)
(to a certain extent) 3rd Mvt. of Tchaik. 6.
There are a few
others which I can't recall.
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cyn38
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Janet,
I understand completely and have had the same
experience many a time.
The first time was my freshman year
at college when (believe it or not), I heard Barber's Adagio for
Strings for the first time. That was a time before it was connected
to a movie and the subsequent reminders of war that go with that
film, but hearing it as we read through it in rehearsal reduced me
to tears. I had scaresly heard anything so incredibly beautiful in
my life to that point. I had to work to keep myself together to even
finish playing it!
Since then, I have found myself in tears
for the sheer beauty and emotion connected to certain classical
pieces. Most recently, I think of the Britten War Requiem we did in
March 2000, where after having studied and learned about the war,
and the sheer work involved in learning such difficult music, I
cried through both performances. Singing and crying is a new talent
I'm acquiring 
February 2001 performance of Mahler 3 found me on stage (the
women & children sing in the 5th movement), but the tears didn't
start pouring until that exquisite final Adagio movement. Many in
the orchestra, including Keith Lockhart, also spent that movement in
tears. POWERFUL stuff, and what a privilege to be a part of
it.
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Anna
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brought to
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I've just had this with the second movement of Shostakovitch Cello
Conceto No. 1... It's like there's someone woh felt the same I do
sometims and is able to bring it into music!
Anna
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Tom
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On Wednesday night I will be performing Barber's Adagio for
Strings. And I totally agree that it is one of the most amazingly
emotional pieces ever written. During rehersal, it fells fantastic
to play it, I can only imagine what it's going to be like when I
perform it!
Tom.
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