Mazeppa(The Way We Wear)
Stewart Gordon · 1995
Abstract AS musicians, we engage in an art which hopes to communicate something about our world and even, in its best moments, elicit both an intellectual and emotional response from an audience. No matter how much we become involved in the preparation of that communication, success or failure in the last analysis depends a great deal on the accuracy, speed, and refinement of purely physical responses. Yet, a curious contra diction attends the field of musical performance with regard to the matter of maintaining this physical aspect of our being. It has been pointed out often enough that the human body is not a mechanical device and is subject to considerable variation from day to day or even from hour to hour.