{"id":6593,"date":"2021-10-24T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2021-10-24T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:58:36","slug":"searching-for-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6593","title":{"rendered":"Searching for expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When my students compose, I prefer them to be mistaken if they must make mistakes, but to remain natural and free rather than wishing to appear other than what they are.  I remember a day when Stravinsky was dining here.  He took his neighbor at the table by the lapels, violently!  His neighbor crushed, said to him, &#8220;But Monsieur Stravinsky, I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re talking like this, I agree with you.&#8221;  And Strainvsky exclaimed furiously, &#8220;Yes, but not for the right reasons, so you are wrong.&#8221;  <br><br>You can have good or bad reasons for searching.  If you search in order to hide your inadequacy, you&#8217;re wrong.  If you are looking in order to say what you really want to say, you&#8217;re right.  And so it&#8217;s very important for a teacher first of all to let his pupil play as he wishes, write as he wishes; and then to be ruthless on questions of discipline.  <br><br>\u2014 Nadia Boulanger<\/p><cite><em>Mademoiselle: <\/em>Conversations with Nadia Boulanger, ed. by Bruno Monsaingeon, trans. by Robyn Marsack. Cited in: O. Strunk, <em>Source Readings in Music History: The Twentieth Century, <\/em>New York, W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 1998, p.218.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my students compose, I prefer them to be mistaken if they must make mistakes, but to remain natural and free rather than wishing to appear other than what they are. I remember a day when Stravinsky was dining here. He took his neighbor at the table by the lapels, violently! His neighbor crushed, said [&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":[53],"tags":[705,35],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-methods","tag-expression","tag-stravinsky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","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=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}