{"id":362,"date":"2009-07-27T06:18:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T06:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2009\/07\/lineage\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T20:07:46","slug":"lineage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2009\/07\/lineage.html","title":{"rendered":"Lineage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a concert I played in Munich in May, there was a question-and-answer session. (I performed music written by Alvin Curran, Sylvano Bussotti, and Earle Brown.) One audience member asked if a performer of newish music still needs to study Chopin&#8217;s etudes?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince the pervasive use of photography by visual artists, the question arises in art schools: &#8220;Do art students need to learn how to draw?&#8221;<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"easel.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/easel.jpg\" width=\"335\" height=\"320\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 25px 0 22px 20px;\" \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo the question in Munich, my immediate answer was that pianists in music schools still <em>do<\/em> study Chopin&#8217;s etudes, and Liszt&#8217;s, and Beethoven&#8217;s sonatas. Whether this is essential to master the instrument, I doubt. It does influence (or skew) a basic sense of what music is. And, that resultant understanding of &#8220;music&#8221; is inc<em>line<\/em>d to line, goal (teleology), and development.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt used to be that almost every player of the viola started out by learning the violin. For a few decades, this has been changing. Now, there are excellent violists who start their musical lives directly with the viola. Do they sound different?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat kind of music-making would ensue if the repertory pianists studied began with Stockhausen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a concert I played in Munich in May, there was a question-and-answer session. (I performed music written by Alvin Curran, Sylvano Bussotti, and Earle Brown.) One audience member asked if a performer of newish music still needs to study Chopin&#8217;s etudes? Since the pervasive use of photography by visual artists, the question arises in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[385,387,100,391,389,386,388,392,393,390,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-alvin-curran","9":"tag-bussotti","10":"tag-chopin","11":"tag-conservatory","12":"tag-crosscurrents","13":"tag-curran","14":"tag-earle-brown","15":"tag-etude","16":"tag-etudes","17":"tag-musical-style","18":"tag-repertoire","19":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}