Poll : Are you a musician from the past, reincarnate ?

[m1469]

Just curious 

Feel free to elaborate.

[m1469]

oooops... I changed the options while you were voting, person. 

Feel free to change your vote.

[m1469]

ooooops #2, I realize that I didn't check the change vote option (I thought I did).  Sorry  :-


I reset it to zero.

[pianowolfi]

lol i voted no but now there's one Schumann. Thal, what's your comment on this nono I'm the reincarnation specialist here and I've met several Persons who were claimed to be one or another reincarnated Composer or other celebrity and i don't believe a f******* word of that. 

[m1469]

lol i voted no but now there's one Schumann. Thal, what's your comment on this nono I'm the reincarnation specialist here and I've met several Persons who were claimed to be one or another reincarnated Composer or other celebrity and i don't believe a f******* word of that. 

Yeah, I set it back to zero after I made the changes.  Feel free to vote again .

[thalbergmad]

Yeh, I was Schumann in a previous life.

[m1469]

Yeh, I was Schumann in a previous life.

So vote for him then

[pianowolfi]

Yeh, I was Schumann in a previous life.

That's what I just wanted to say. Because your antipathy is against your former incarnation lol

[pianistimo]

these composers are all men, mayla.  if men are extinct in 15 to 20 thousand years we don't want them reinventing themselves through us do we?  ok.  i've gotten over thal's comments.  maybe a few choice men.  men who only say kind things.

no.  i do not believe in reincarnation - but i've often gotten a few strange shivers when i play some mozart or beethoven and feel like i understand exactly where they were coming from.  or that i might have interpreted it (according to my brain) as they might like.  it would be so nice to actually see them smile if you played their piece well.  of course, the opposite would also be fearful.  a scowl.  how dare you wreck my piece like that!

[m1469]

no.  i do not believe in reincarnation -

Then I strongly encourage you to vote "no" in the poll .

[pianistimo]

oops.  i accidentally hit sandpaper, toilet paper.  what does that mean?

[m1469]

oops.  i accidentally hit sandpaper, toilet paper.  what does that mean?

ha ha... I almost sucked toothpaste into my lungs reading your reply... LOL.  Well, anyway, it looks like you didn't mark it afterall 

[Derek]

I sometimes find it amusing to fancy myself a reincarnated composer. However, this is ridiculous. I am not a genius, nor would I want my own music to be an absolute clone of someone from the past. I am happy to be the very first Derek George Andrews, reincarnated from....a well behaved cat. Who sometimes enjoyed mutilating small warm blooded animals.

[phil13]

I am a reincarnation of the creature that was the man-child of Scriabin and Debussy. (I hesitate to say 'love-child', it was not out of love) 

Phil

[invictious]

I think my dad is a reincarnation of Beethoven, I mean his temper and his ears are so much like beethoven, except he is not deaf..

[leucippus]

Ok, I voted no because I'm seriously not a musician.  I'm not musically inclined at all.   I do feel that I could have possibly been Isaac Newton in the past, but that's another story. 

I do identify with J. S. Bach however.  Particularly with his solo violin partitas and sonatas, his solo cello suites, and his 2 and 3-part preambles and fantasies (inventions).  I can identify with the way he thinks in terms of multiple voices.  Not to imply that I could compose like he did.  But then again I think that if I was into music I would be into multi-layered complexities similar in style to his. 

There were things that Beethoven wrote too that I feel very close to.  The 1st movement of Waldstein for example, and also the 3rd movement of Moonlight Sonata.  Again, not to imply that I could have written them, but I identify with them.

I also identify with Haydn's String Quartets.  I like the way he plays the different instruments off each other.  Kind of like Bach's multiple voices but Haydn uses four different instruments in a quartet to accomplish it.  But I guess that's getting away from piano. 

[mephisto]

A Hinton is ceratinly Sorabji`s haunting ghost

[invictious]

Yea, I am impressed by Sorabji, by his ability to spill ink over manuscript paper and call it music, otherwise having the patience to write millions of random notes and call it music, and people actually bother learning random notes.

[m1469]

Actually, I am quite interested in the number of votes and the specific ones, too.  It's funny to see that there are several votes for a number of the same people.  hee hee... I wonder whose who ? 

Thanks for your contributions everybody.

[nanabush]

Debussy for sure 

[ahinton]

A Hinton is ceratinly Sorabji`s haunting ghost

That would be a bit difficult, since we were both alive at the same time...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Yea, I am impressed by Sorabji, by his ability to spill ink over manuscript paper and call it music, otherwise having the patience to write millions of random notes and call it music, and people actually bother learning random notes.

Really - well, let me ask you a few very simple questions.

1. Which of those first two things truly impresses you? (presumably not both, since they are more or less contradictions of one another).
2. What is a "random note"?
3. Why do you attribute patience to Sorabji?
4. Have you counted the number of notes he wrote?

I'll leave your last bit, since it's of little perceivable relevance unless you first answer at least questions 2 & 3 above.

Oh, and one last question...
5. What specific relevance has any of what you write here to the thread topic? (just curious)...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Whilst I accept that most pianostreet members are probably not composers, I am one, so it presumably falls to me to observe here that it's surely quite hard enough just being the composer that one is now, without even bothering to consider which composer one might have been in a past life, even if one believed in such a concept in the first place...

Best,

Alistair

[phil13]

Whilst I accept that most pianostreet members are probably not composers, I am one, so it presumably falls to me to observe here that it's surely quite hard enough just being the composer that one is now, without even bothering to consider which composer one might have been in a past life, even if one believed in such a concept in the first place...

Best,

Alistair

Amen to that.

I, too, am a composer, and while I do believe you have a point in that it is tough to be a composer in your own way, I must point out that every composer has been influenced by other composers; the only truly original composer would be the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon that discovered music in the first place, and even (s)he might have been influenced by nature, which creates music of its own.

My music takes influential characteristics from the music of Scriabin, Faure, Debussy, Chopin, and several others. Surely your own music, Alistair, was influenced by other composers?

Phil

[moi_not_toi]

Whilst .............
Alistair

YAY!!!! Someone uses my favorite word!!!!

I would have to say that I am a reincarnation of bach. I would DEFINATELY walk 50 miles for a good organ. Especially a kidney.

[Motrax]

I chose "no" and "sandpaper toilet paper," as I believe that I was not a composer in the past and that sandpaper toilet paper makes one appreciate how comfortable life is 99% of the time. 

- M

[thalbergmad]

That would be a bit difficult, since we were both alive at the same time...

Best,

Alistair

You have obviously not seen "The Mephisto Waltz".

Good film, but Alan Alda as a pianist seems strange casting.

Thal

[ahinton]

You have obviously not seen "The Mephisto Waltz".

Good film, but Alan Alda as a pianist seems strange casting.

Thal

OK - fair comment - but there's stilll no "ghosting" going in where KSS and I are concerned...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Amen to that.

I, too, am a composer, and while I do believe you have a point in that it is tough to be a composer in your own way, I must point out that every composer has been influenced by other composers; the only truly original composer would be the Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon that discovered music in the first place, and even (s)he might have been influenced by nature, which creates music of its own.

My music takes influential characteristics from the music of Scriabin, Faure, Debussy, Chopin, and several others. Surely your own music, Alistair, was influenced by other composers?

Phil

"Influenced" - yes, of course - but that's a very different matter to that of perceiving to have been some other composer (i.e., in your terms here, one by whom one might in the "present life" be - or have been - influenced) in a "past life"; if one has been influenced by several composers, how would one pick that particular composer whom one might think oneself to have "been" in a "previous life"? No, as I wrote earlier, it's quite enough to try to be the one that one is now...

Best,

Alistair