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Listening Through: Twenty-Seven Concertos for Piano
Paperback
Publisher Price: $21.00
ISBN13: 9781940625799
Publisher: Contra Mundum Press
Published: Sep 24 2025
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different -- I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me.
Practically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano.
My own musical taste draws me to late romanticism - Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss - and I didn't want my own taste to get in the way. So I turned to the brilliant complexity and rich emotional variegation of Mozart. So one January I kept at it...
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