"On Writing It All Out"
https://fickleears.blogspot.com/2012/12/on-writing-it-all-out.html

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Recently in Los Angeles, at a performance of music from Wayne Shorter's <i>High Life</i>, the bandleader described Marcus Miller's role as producer:

<i>"...basically to tell Wayne, 'you don't need these eight pages'..."</i>











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<a href="http://torpedotheark.blogspot.com/2022/12/from-too-many-notes-to-silence.html">From Too Many Notes To Silence</a>

<i>"Following the premier of </i>Entführung aus dem Serail<i> in the summer of 1782, at the Burgtheater (Vienna), Mozart famously had an exchange with the man who had commissioned the work, Emperor Joseph II. 
 
"Whilst the latter lavishy praised the three-act comic opera, he suggested that there were times when the music became too convoluted and contained, as it were, </i>too many notes<i> ...

"To be fair to Joseph - who was by no means musically illiterate or some kind of </i>Bildungsphilister<i> - the complexity of Mozart's work had been noted by others - including Goethe - and what he actually said was: </i>Zu schön für unsere Ohren, und gewaltig viel Noten, lieber Mozart!<i>

"This might more accurately be translated into English as: 'Too beautiful for our ears, and a great many notes, dear Mozart!'"</i>















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