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I’m often asked by my non-musical friends, and even by of my some musical friends, what it is about music that so captivates me. This is a good question to ask any musician: essentially, “What is it about music that makes you wish to devote your w...
Jesse, I approach your claim that "nearly every person in the world listens to music" with caution. In his book about the San Francisco Symphony, Dave Schneider included a quotation from Igor Stravinsky that I find most appropriate to discussing y...
I’m often asked by my non-musical friends, and even by of my some musical friends, what it is about music that so captivates me. This is a good question to ask any musician: essentially, “What is it about music that makes you wish to devote your w...
Welcome to the Smule Group on the San Francisco Symphony Social Network. It’s a good place to hang out and meet other budding musicians who use Smule apps to turn their iPhones and iPod touches into musical instruments.
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- My favorite musicians:
- Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim, Micheal Tilson Thomas, Gustavo Dudamel, George Szell, Karl Bohm, Pierre Boulez, Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zukerman, Hilary Hahn, Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Julian Bream, Beatles, Phish, Infected Mushroom, Crystal Castles, Justice, Miles Davis, Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, and Dave Brubeck.
- My favorite composers:
- Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Henryk Gorecki.
- The instrument(s) I play (or played, as a kid):
- Guitar, Piano, and Violin.
- What I’d like people on this social network to know about me:
- I'm a first year student at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a composition major. I plan to pursue a career as a composer/conductor.
- How I’m connected with the San Francisco Symphony:
- as a fan
Jesse Limbacher's Blog
Why Music?
I’m often asked by my non-musical friends, and even by of my some musical friends, what it is about music that so captivates me. This is a good question to ask any musician: essentially, “What is it about music that makes you wish to devote your whole being to it rather than to one of the other arts?” Most musicians in the classical field, for lack of a better term, are very intellectually capable and could easily be successful in many other fields, artistic or otherwise.
If a serious musician… Continue
If a serious musician… Continue
Posted on June 29, 2009 at 5:19pm — 1 Comment
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