The unanswered question

Ensemble FisFuz

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durgunum.

bedenen. daha çok ruhen. 

dalgalanamadan durulanlardanız vesselam.

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8 dakikadır uyarayım.

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cevaplanmamış soruları olanlar

soruları cevapsız bırakanlar için.

niçin?

so did anyone ever tell vinson why why why why

I’ve noticed that John Coltrane’s late discography during his free jazz period gets increasingly dissonant and chaotic with each release. I like compare it to Charles Ive’s The Unanswered Question, wherein every time the trumpet asks “the perennial question of existence,” it is answered by increasingly frustrated woodwinds that eventually explode and become quiet. Death. And then the question is asked again. Same thing with John Coltrane, I suppose. And here I am, sitting, contemplating.

Scenes from Ives' Marriage

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seriously though, why do hipsters write on paint chips?

Legendary Composer Leonard Bernstein on the Future of Music, Harvard 1973

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“A great new era of eclecticism is at hand.”

                                                                                           

In the fall of 1972, legendary composer Leonard Bernstein was appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, his alma mater — a position originally created in 1925 to bring celebrated poets as campus residents and student advisors and previously occupied by such luminaries as T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, and Robert Frost. In 1973, Bernstein delivered his sextet of lucid lectures, aimed at an intelligent listened not musically trained but keenly interested in how music works and how to listen to music…

The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard

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