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Steven Schwartz wrote:
>.. Composers compose as they have to.
Composers compose because they have to....
As much as I have loved playing music and listening to music it was always
a great mystery to me how a Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Schumann could sit at
the keyboard and "pop out" these major works. I have experienced the young
child proudly show me the beginnings of a beautiful "manuscript" of which
they are so proud. But recently I encountered a thirteen year old, whose
song haunted me with beauty and mystery. She worked on it as a result of
learning new chords for the left hand in an impromptu "lesson". It doesn't
just wander aimlessly like most and has a beginning, middle and end. I
think I have seen and heard the seeds of a composer (not a novelty in that
family). I understood immediately what you said when you wrote about the
work and necessity of composing. I have now seen it. It is so different
from fine art paintings that can be worked or craftsman that can change the
art form for once a combination of notes has sounded, it can not be taken
back, good or bad.
Jane Pierce
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