Thread: Stephen Hough

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Post by operamuso December 19, 2013 (21 of 22)
stvnharr said:

The above is the predominate train of thought for us listeners whose main entry into the music world is our music systems. But unless one's work is in the music reproduction or equipment production field, we listen to music for extra curricular pleasure.
But if you are a working musician, music is your work. And you may want to do something other than listen to music for "extra curricular pleasure". In other words, you don't want to really take your work home with you. If you do music at home, I imagine it would be more like practising playing or going over a score or something.
But sitting down and listening to a hifi might not be very important for anything other than maybe background music at times.

Exactly so - though I'm not remotely on the same exalted level as Mr Hough I am a professional musician, and I tend only really to enjoy my (sa)cd collection when I'm not professionally very busy. Listening to solo piano or chamber music though can be balm to the soul after a day of opera or orchestral music.

But please - no good musician I know can contemplate even the thought of so-called background music......

Post by steviev December 20, 2013 (22 of 22)
stvnharr said:

....But if you are a working musician, music is your work. And you may want to do something other than listen to music for "extra curricular pleasure". In other words, you don't want to really take your work home with you.

This is my experience too. I've never known a pro musician who listens much to music at home, and if they do, they do so analytically -- it's like they can't turn off their critical discerning musician's ear -- so it's not something they do for relaxation.

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