{"id":5201,"date":"2018-12-28T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T03:46:52","slug":"rachmaninoff-on-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Rachmaninoff on interpretation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the talented student grows older he must seek within himself his interpretation.\u00a0 Does he wish to know how to play the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">cantilena<\/span> of Beethoven or Chopin? He must feel it himself!\u00a0 Talent is feeling, the feeling that every player experiences in his innermost consciousness&#8230; It takes years of work to understand and think out problems in music.\u00a0 Every player must ponder them and decide for himself after his conservatory training is finished.<\/p>\n<p>Chopin!\u00a0 From the time when I was nineteen years old I felt his greatness, and I marvel at it still.\u00a0 He is today more modern than many moderns &#8230; he remains for me one the greatest of the giants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Rachmaninoff, in an interview with Florence Leonard in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Etude.\u00a0 <\/span>Cited in: Bertensson, Sergei &amp; Leyda, Jay (2001) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music<\/span>. \u00a0Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p.279.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the talented student grows older he must seek within himself his interpretation.\u00a0 Does he wish to know how to play the cantilena of Beethoven or Chopin? He must feel it himself!\u00a0 Talent is feeling, the feeling that every player experiences in his innermost consciousness&#8230; It takes years of work to understand and think out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[670,782,76],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers","tag-interpretation","tag-performance-practice","tag-rachmaninoff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5544,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}