When I was at school we had the great privilege one day of having Yehudi Menuhin play for us. I think his son may have been a pupil. Anyway he played a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin and it sounded to my inexperienced ears as though there were 2 or 3 violinists playing. The 16 year olds that my friends and I were prepared to laugh at this stodgy classical stuff but we were dumbstruck. I remember someone saying in an awed voice at the end. "That was better than the Grateful Dead!"
@d - Since all real scientists have always known this, I am cynical about mainstream research saying the same. much too late in the day. The bureaucracy gets what the bureaucracy wants - and they control the research appointments, funding, promotions, prizes and media publicity. There is no place for science in the system.
25 March 2019 at 06:38
It turns out that opposites can sometimes go together very well. Two very different approaches to Bach, by great musicians, each with great mutual respect for the other.
To my mind; this somewhat experimental, improvisatory (and from Menuhin - rough-edged) live performance is absolutely rivetting in its intensity.
"Chalk and Cheese - Gould and Menuhin"
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When I was at school we had the great privilege one day of having Yehudi Menuhin play for us. I think his son may have been a pupil. Anyway he played a Bach sonata for unaccompanied violin and it sounded to my inexperienced ears as though there were 2 or 3 violinists playing. The 16 year olds that my friends and I were prepared to laugh at this stodgy classical stuff but we were dumbstruck. I remember someone saying in an awed voice at the end. "That was better than the Grateful Dead!"
23 March 2019 at 11:53
O/T: your sort of thing?
https://dominiccummings.com/2019/03/11/on-the-referendum-32-science-productivity-a-small-teams-are-more-disruptive-b-science-is-becoming-far-less-efficient/
24 March 2019 at 23:50
@d - Since all real scientists have always known this, I am cynical about mainstream research saying the same. much too late in the day. The bureaucracy gets what the bureaucracy wants - and they control the research appointments, funding, promotions, prizes and media publicity. There is no place for science in the system.
25 March 2019 at 06:38