CD76, track 2

[ted]

Another big one, but I shall keep to my maximum of one posting a month. Of course I record and play dozens more, especially now that peculiar physical problem seems to have vanished.

[pianowolfi]

Beautiful! Your world is so different of mine, and I like it so much, I am diving every once in a while into it and I'm always returning refreshed and I would not ever in the world want to be without your music!

[ted]

Thank you Wolfi, you are too kind. It is a real compliment that someone of your musical learning and deep musicianship should consider my peculiar improvisation worth listening to. Aside from a few years in my teens with a local composer, I have had no orthodox training, never been in a conservatory, never perform, never been professional and hardly know any, and in fact worked at a factory for thirty years. It's not surprising our worlds are different.

But that is the good thing about this forum. Creative differences are celebrated and encouraged. Long may it continue.

[chopinatic]

Ted, your improvisations are always inspiring! How i wish to have the knowlege and mastery of the Piano that you have. This is wonderful

[ted]

I'm pleased you like it, Chopinatic. I actually know very little about music in the sense of what is called "common practice", theory and so on. The only rule I have ever followed is to make sounds I enjoy and only those sounds; coupled with a very powerful and ruthless imperative to create which has been with me since my earliest memory. To be scrupulously honest, what the famous, the great, the experts, those with ten thousand times my natural talent, do or say neither interests nor concerns me. Some people mistake this for iconoclasm, but it isn't that at all. I have always listened very widely and much music of the masters, old and modern, is very dear to me. In late middle age, and despite having written out many things, I finally admitted that my type of spontaneous brain is simply not wired for composition. In short, I was probably born to improvise but it took me fifty years to realise it. Once I did, I experienced a tremendous opening of the gates and became much happier in myself generally.