Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Give Chopin a Break!





Speaking of good music:


(You need to get some kind of ticket - free of charge - at the Univeristy before the concert; no idea if there's any left, but give it a try).

I've heard Mr Sterczynski play Chopin before and the power he's supplyin' is
electrifyin' as Danny Zucko would put it.

(Although I have to be honest here and go along with Danny, I guess: Olivia supllies a bit more; especially in that Amusement Park, oh, man..., but anyway - Chopin can also be exciting.)



*I had a chance once to disagree with Mr Sterczyński about the use of 'university' in this context. I was against it as university , in my opinion, must deal with sentences and do Theology. Then I thought of an argument that would actually support his position: the problem with sentences and music is not that music doesn't do them, but that it does too many of them, and forcefully, too; not necessarily, though, in a key that allows intersubjective verifiability -

... no, sorry - I'm talking out of tune: the experience shows that in this respect music is a few keys superior to language; I remember when in high school Chudy's band - which I was part of - tried to play, you could liten to it, only just; but when it argued about what to play, you couldn't make heads or tails of it.