Listening Through - Kelly, Robert
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¿People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different -- I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me. Practically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano. My own musical taste draws me to late…mehr

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¿People have been writing about music for centuries, finding melodies for words, and words for melodies, or writing about what the music makes them feel. I yearned for something different -- I wanted to know what would happen if I listened through the music, that is, approach the music with an empty mind and let it start talking in me. Practically speaking, I began writing the instant the music began and stopped abruptly when the music ended. That suggested to me the movements within a concerto or symphony, so I turned to the concertos of Mozart for piano. My own musical taste draws me to late romanticism - Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss - and I didn't want my own taste to get in the way. So I turned to the brilliant complexity and rich emotional variegation of Mozart. So one January I kept at it...
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Robert Kelly (September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. He is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Dutchess County, New York. Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award (1980) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation (1991) for In Time. He serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, as well as Poetry International. He is married to the translator Charlotte Mandell.