> Needless to say, I much prefer the little Feldman said to the lot others > have to say all the time... > BTW: how can one know too much? Did you go through that experience and how > did you get rid of your learning so successfully? > danyel I didn't say I was very successful in liberating myself from too much knowledge. It is a life-long process. It certainly helps to stave off the debilitating realization that anything musically meaningful has been done before. RT
>>> bit is, to put your tools to a good use. And to use the proper tools. In >>> that respect I agree with da Vinci, extending his line of thought to > dismiss >>> oil painting in favour of Chinese ink on paper works and dismiss all >>> painting in favour of music and dismiss all physical music in favour of >>> imaginary music. The most noble art would be to know everything and do >>> nothing (as Morton Feldman's grandmother used to say). >> In my family it is the other way around. Unfortunately it is hard to get > rid >> of accumulated knowledge. >> As to Feldman, he knew too much, and did little, appropriately for someone >> who had little to say. >> RT >> -- >> http://polyhymnion.org/torban >> > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
