{"id":1664,"date":"2008-09-08T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2008\/09\/varieties_of_musical_experienc\/"},"modified":"2008-09-08T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T22:30:37","slug":"varieties_of_musical_experienc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/09\/varieties_of_musical_experienc.html","title":{"rendered":"Varieties of Musical Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a good friend, Carl Weissner<\/a>, playing Chopin. He hasn’t played for, oh, about 50 years. “This is the schmaltzy version — Viennese,” he says. On top of that he’s combining two different pieces. “But,” he adds, “what the hell.”
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\n(Recorded on my new little gizmo, a Flip Video Mino. The image is sharper when you play the video, and much sharper here<\/a> when you click “watch in high quality.”)
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\nAnd here’s a taste of the Caribbean on a summer day in Tompkins Square Park, NYC.
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\n(The image is sharper when you play the video, and much sharper here<\/a> when you click “watch in high quality.”)
\nSeems the Flip Video Mino will turn anyone into a videographer, especially me. It’s a democratization of sorts, and I don’t doubt that it lowers the tone of the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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