Zitat des Tages von Caroline Shaw:
I don't really call myself a composer.
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.
I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.
I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.
It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
