Conversations

Description

We’ve often been told that music is a universal language, but it’s not that everyone understands it like a mother tongue; it’s that everyone speaks it as if it were their native tongue. It’s about practicing listening to it each time, in a new way, with the ears of a tourist. So let’s travel, and imagine encounters. A German Brahms would understand a French Saint-Saëns as well as a Russian Glière, a Belgian Jongen could make himself understood by an Austrian Kreisler as well as a British Elgar, a trombonist and a pianist would understand each other; and the listener, through these languages and sounds, familiar or new, can, through these conversations, invent meaning while surrendering to pleasure.