Saturday, July 19, 2008

Sinopoli, and Music and Psychiatriry, AND NOMO SHOCK LINGERS ON

Now listening to a CD of Beethoven’s “Klavierkonzerte Nrs. 1&2” (Martha Argerich, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Philharmonia Orchestra). How many years since Sinopoli passed away? This maestro was also a psychiatrist, right? Music and psychiatry… There are deep relations between them, like Yo Yo Ma studied music and psychology as a double-major at Harvard. Music composition can be very technical as Zappa pointed out, but then psychological effects music has on the mind (or the brain, assuming that the brain is the organ that is controlling the mind) cannot be underestimated. I believe Zappa knew it and that’s why he played to young audience to influence chemical interactions in their brains and he was probably laughing at them, realizing his aim was being achieved just as he intended.
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野茂は本当に引退してしまったんだなぁ、とまだ考える。米国での最初の年。オールスターに選出されて入場してくるときの表情にKalamazooでの自分を映していた。彼は間違いなくこの瞬間を楽しんでいると。人との厄介なつきあいによるのではなく、自分だけの力で受け入れられたという感覚じゃなかったのかな。

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