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For me, I would love to have dinner with J.S. Bach, mostly because I know that it would be a REAL party, because he would very probably have his 10 children, and wife Anna Magdalena with him! With such a musical family, and one where they often spent dinners singing chorales, improvising Canons, and playing word games it would be a lot of fun!
I would certainly ask him questions about what he thought about the new Cristofori pianoforte from 1720, and also how he is able to write such complex, yet beautiful music such as Goldberg Variations, and Art of Fugue! How does he balance the mathematics with the emotional content in his music? My questions would be endless!
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I would love to have dinner and conversation with singer Barbra Streisand. (Chopin would be too much to ask.)
I have wanted this the last 36 years - even wrote to her, in 1986, when I was only 19 yo. (Now I am 55 yo) She don't even know I exist, but I see her as a fantastic person/woman, and an extremely beautiful singer. -
I would definitely have dinner with CHOPIN and would ask him how to achieve this beautiful sound quality, how to play really lyrical, any piano advice he could give. I would tell him how much his art means to me and that I would be lost without him…
From today I would like to meet MIKHAIL PLETNEV and ask him how he achieves this super-pianissimo („ppppp“) with the notes still having substance. I would ask him how he approaches a new piece. How he practices. Which advice he got from Yakov Flier!!!???
Also I would love to meet MARIA JOAO PIRES….I’d probably kidnap her, so she has to teach me the next years, hehe :-) -
Brahms for classical (where did his inspiration for those chords come from?). Chick Corea for jazz (I heard him LIVE improvising on Scriabin. It was fabulous!). Living musician? John Kimora Parker. I knew him as Jackie Parker when he was a young teen in Victoria, Canada and he was the reason I signed up with Tonebase. I LOVE the musician and person he has become and it would be amazing to hear more about his journey.
Fun Topic!
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I would love to have dinner with Hildegard de Bingen (1098-1179 - Germany). She was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath: a writer (including medical treatises), philosopher, visionary, mystic, and musical composer.
From the above hyperlink: "Hildegard’s 'compositions' stand out from other liturgical music because of the almost improvisatory nature of her melodies: they are freer, more wide-ranging and elaborate than the simple, one-octave lines advocated by her contemporary Bernard of Clairvaux."
Questions: How did your faith inform your work? How did you acquire your vast knowledge of music, history, botany, medicine, etc?