tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80606652024-03-07T01:01:52.485-08:00Brain FoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060665.post-71280349876983749722016-04-02T10:13:00.002-07:002016-04-02T10:13:32.033-07:00Music that does not fit with the narrative<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDO2_0W7z5mgpZV-z5g8FSb_9AM17b-Fy1w5wMmwcAi_X8y_V4EtpCHOEiRDdAoRA0rqwIRCByDcpo7WRbiXM6ycL-cUE5h82gzFLtAu_du41GF_kI_UKVGd8grUqETSxj5z8JKA/s1600/Hatto+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDO2_0W7z5mgpZV-z5g8FSb_9AM17b-Fy1w5wMmwcAi_X8y_V4EtpCHOEiRDdAoRA0rqwIRCByDcpo7WRbiXM6ycL-cUE5h82gzFLtAu_du41GF_kI_UKVGd8grUqETSxj5z8JKA/s400/Hatto+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: black;">In an email exchange with a musician friend I lamented how my reference <a href="http://www.overgrownpath.com/2016/04/i-have-rarely-worked-so-hard-at-piece.html">in a recent post</a> to the 'sadly maligned Joyce Hatto' and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkx0FH4c-L0">my link</a> to her recording of Arnold Bax's Symphonic Variations were both met with a resounding silence. In reply my friend wrote:<br />
<blockquote>And no wonder the glaring silence around Hatto; that tempest made all the critics look amateurish. It is a shame that fraud on her husband's part has deafened the music world to Hatto's manifestly genuine qualities. I guess her real story just doesn't fit the narrative.</blockquote>Which reminded me of how relevant these words of <a href="http://www.krishnamurticentre.org.uk/teachings/">Krishnamurti</a> are in our media-moderated age:<br />
<blockquote>We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compiled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves; nothing original, pristine, clear.</blockquote><span style="font-size: 85%;">Also on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/overgrownpath">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/overgrownpath">Twitter</a>. Any copyrighted material is included as "fair use" for critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).</span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060665.post-1114449942719813462005-04-25T10:23:00.000-07:002005-08-21T00:47:44.376-07:00Environment not in use<a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="free web hit counter" src="http://c6.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=671739&java=0&security=cb1c919d&invisible=1" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Please visit <a href="http://www.theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/">On An Overgrown Path </a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.theovergrownpath.blogspot.com"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0