{"id":8399,"date":"2012-12-11T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2012-12-11T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T19:51:23","slug":"an-insight-on-lecturing-vs-making-art-from-late-pianist-and-scholar-charles-rosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/12\/11\/an-insight-on-lecturing-vs-making-art-from-late-pianist-and-scholar-charles-rosen\/","title":{"rendered":"An insight on lecturing vs making art from late pianist and scholar Charles Rosen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/rosen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8400\" title=\"rosen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/rosen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a nice obituary of Charles Rosen posted on New York City classical music station WQXR&#8217;s website along with a full 1985 performance of Bach&#8217;s <em>Goldberg Variations<\/em> at the Frick Collection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He died on Sunday, aged 85, of complications from a struggle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The obituary has a wonderful quote of Rosen&#8217;s that stands out among many insights he had about music, composers, interpretation and aesthetics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Playing concerts is much less fatiguing than giving lectures for an odd reason: If you play a Beethoven sonata, it doesn\u2019t matter what kind of audience you have, whereas if you give a lecture you have to keep thinking, &#8216;should I go a little slower, should I repeat what I\u2019m saying?&#8217; You have to make some kind of contact with the minds of the people \u2013 whereas playing a concert is like creating a work of art. You make as beautiful a work of art as you can and you hope that people will love it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wqxr.org\/#!\/blogs\/wqxr-blog\/2012\/dec\/10\/charles-rosen-pianist-writer-and-intellectual-dies-85\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (including an interview on the music of Eliot Carter).<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice obituary of Charles Rosen posted on New York City classical music station WQXR&#8217;s website along with a full 1985 performance of Bach&#8217;s Goldberg Variations at the Frick Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,22,36,39,41,47],"tags":[726,979,1452,6468,3616],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/rosen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2bt","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}