21st
January
2009
Musical interlude
posted by saurabh in Bloorging under the influence |I was late in discovering Nina Simone; I’m lazy in exploring intellectually challenging art, especially with regard to music, more’s the pity since I’m so piercingly affected by it. As music goes I think hearing Nina was kind of a revelation, a demonstration of what a musician can do, and should strive to do. When she sings, it is to make us feel; she is a compelling argument that art is about communicating sentiment much more than it is about aesthetics (never mind egotism). Here’s one of her most powerfully affecting pieces, where she almost berates the audience into accepting the terrible current of emotion she is giving them. She’s an ideal; few musicians come close.
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