Word: tk
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...TK: I study classical music because I love it, but we all know that it occupies an increasingly smaller part of the everyday attention span. I hope that's a temporary thing. I hope it comes back, like natural fibers and vegetarian diets. I'm going to wait it out. I am interested in making people involved in actively engaging music, supporting the presence of music and musicians in their world. Ultimately, I want people to realize how lucky they are to be alive on a planet that has such wonderful music past, present and future...
...TK: We can look in a piano bench and pull out a bunch of pieces of paper that we call music, sheet music. But it's not music. It's a representation. To me, music happens when sound is heard by people for pleasure. Music happens in time, not on paper. Someone has to be creating, and someone has to be listening...
...TK: Nobody's reacting [with a CD]. You don't know how you're doing. I know just what he means...
...TK: CDs are people making music, but they're not making it now. We forget that symphony orchestras can't be put in jewel cases. When you perform for people, you can get a sense of how you're doing. If you're doing we'll and people are enjoying it, you do better. You rise to the occasion and things come out that you didn't know you had in you. Other days, nothing goes right and you go through the motions. Music is not just what I do; it's an interaction among people...
...TK: I think...