Sunday, August 30, 2009

Live Performance

... reaching for the fullness of every pleasure that life could give us – now, not later, not living for some future reward but getting it all right now...
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'When there is that rare combination of all the essentials of person and character and beauty and voice and image that you accept entirely as being true and real – those moments, whether is opera or in theatre, are treasured. And if one is fortunate enough to have experienced them, to have been there when it happened, I guess that's what life is made up of. Of moments.'
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'And there were always a deep knowledge that nothing, nothing can come up to a live performance.'
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I asked if he could imagine any kind of digital or video or multimedia experience that might improve on live music.
'Nothing places real life.'
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Real life meaning live music?
'meaning going! seeing! hearing! feeling!'



Recording Angel, pages 180, 181, 182, 183

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