Great answers. I hate his unthinking attitude about historical performance, but just a blindside on an otherwise thoughtful man. He just won't open his ears. I also had dinner with him once. He was charming.
I think, he is spot on regarding the connection between linguistic structure an musical thinking. Segovia once said: "The prosody of language and music are equivalent".
I knew Zukerman wasn’t crazy about Bach, but I find it interesting that the famous musicians who don’t play his works regularly leave him out of their greatness quotient, when every contemporary music historian (from Felix Mendelssohn onward)-as well as countless great soloists-have written or said that without Bach, there would be no phalanx of great German composers following afterward! If you haven’t played and studied his music, you’ve lost a huge chunk of the German musical language, so it’s even more funny that Zukerman says that if you can’t speak German, you don’t know the music! Knowledge of Bach is SO much more important to your musical language. Unless you’re primarily a singer. Maybe this is why Zukerman has never been one of my favorite violinists!
Wonderful man, wonderful spirit. Bravo Pinky!!!
Master !
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attractive guy!
Zuckerman - longtime advocate for the performance of baroque music on period instruments.
Pinchas = Genius!!
Pinchas is a cool and interesting dude (in addition to being a great violinist and violist).
Great answers. I hate his unthinking attitude about historical performance, but just a blindside on an otherwise thoughtful man. He just won't open his ears. I also had dinner with him once. He was charming.
Very true words.
I think, he is spot on regarding the connection between linguistic structure an musical thinking. Segovia once said: "The prosody of language and music are equivalent".
I knew Zukerman wasn’t crazy about Bach, but I find it interesting that the famous musicians who don’t play his works regularly leave him out of their greatness quotient, when every contemporary music historian (from Felix Mendelssohn onward)-as well as countless great soloists-have written or said that without Bach, there would be no phalanx of great German composers following afterward! If you haven’t played and studied his music, you’ve lost a huge chunk of the German musical language, so it’s even more funny that Zukerman says that if you can’t speak German, you don’t know the music! Knowledge of Bach is SO much more important to your musical language. Unless you’re primarily a singer. Maybe this is why Zukerman has never been one of my favorite violinists!
Some Salzbuger may disagree with you calling WAM German.... just saying
ulyssesjj - He means the German language and culture, not the modern state of Germany.
GH1618 no! Really??
If i think i will call you...Hahaha!
He is an ironman