DATE: MONDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Igor Stravinsky
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“The secret to writing a good piece of music is not to make it too short or too long. Timing is everything.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“What comprises good performance? It is the ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true
content and affect of a composition.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A good performance gets the audience to feel something deep inside.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A person will judge him/her self more critically than anyone else.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Irving Berlin
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“What you feel inside will control your entire life on the outside.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK #08 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Artists devote their lives to the creation of beauty for the rest of us to enjoy.”
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