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Re: Music as Experience
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Stirling S Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:19:54 -0400
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Jon Johanning wrote:

>Ed Zubrow reports on Stephen Drury:
>
>>Do not think of music as telling a story.  Do not think of it as a dance.
>>Think of the sounds as an experience to be absorbed.
>
>Great advice!  (By the way, you don't have to confine it to modern music.)
>The problem is, it seems that so few people can follow it.  ...

It would be great advice if Drury believed in it, but he does not.

Stirling S Newberry
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