tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656738879019658236.post401296101258874626..comments2013-02-17T01:36:17.145-08:00Comments on The Downtown Interlude: Accessible music?Charles Colemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039559865163153749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656738879019658236.post-78676854436180153202009-03-26T16:53:00.000-07:002009-03-26T16:53:00.000-07:00I find this article to be inaccessible. Kidding as...I find this article to be inaccessible. <BR/><BR/>Kidding aside, Charles you've touched on something that's been the core of my internal struggle as a composer my entire life, starting way back when I was 13, writing my first orchestral work and whenever I wrote something even mildly dissonant I'd never hear the end of it from my parents, who, at that time, were my entire audience. By the time I got to college dissonance in my work started to peek through and while I was able to eventually put aside the opinion of my parents, I started to get criticism from myself instead...always wondering if I am going too far and losing my audience. Of course that's totally not the point is it. I should have been far more worried about losing myself. If a composer is true to their own voice, accessibility becomes irrelevant as you say. Even if it touches ONE other person, that's all that matters in the end. <BR/><BR/>Even our teachers have tried to tell us in one way or another, what they feel is necessary in music to speak. Some say melody is critical...others say a sense of strong beat while others still say predictable harmonic movement and form. Yet... Lux Aeterna of Ligeti never fails to speak to many people. <BR/><BR/>Lest we also forget how much film music has done for expanding the ears and minds of people all around the world. Saturday morning cartoons alone... Carl Stalling... shaping minds from very young. <BR/><BR/>People can take it. They've just been sold so deeply the myth that music must be "simplistic" (I avoid the word simple), in order to be understandable. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, we all know that quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln about pleasing people... <BR/><BR/>Great Post. Thanks!Luis Andrei Cobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06618146686991861591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656738879019658236.post-20003434756490417902009-03-21T10:25:00.000-07:002009-03-21T10:25:00.000-07:00Charles, Beautifully said and necessary to state. ...Charles, <BR/><BR/>Beautifully said and necessary to state. <BR/><BR/>Terrific entry!<BR/><BR/>Jeff JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com