Re: Subject: Blues vs classical - was: Re: Subject: [Harp-L] The name "blues"

[Barry Bean <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/20/2014 11:37 AM, The Iceman wrote:
> There have been composers of compositions that have asked the 
> musicians not to play with feeling, but to just play totally 
> mechanically. This was to develop a concept to see how it would turn out.

So the challenge becomes "How can I feel this piece in a mechanical 
fashion? How do I transform myself into a machine for the x minutes it 
takes to play this?" Not that different from trying to imagine being 
betrayed when playing "Whose Muddy Shoes" or alone in the world when 
playing "Motherless Children".

BB