1. P HILOSOPHISING A N E XTRACT FROM A P ROGRAMME N OTE Copyright © 2007 June Grandwells. All rights reserved.

2. Arthur Schopenhauer believed that genuinely pure love would allow one not only identify other people’s agony with one's own, but also actually suffer it as if it were one’s own, while giving the sufferer commiseration. I interpret this as meaning that to love is to empathise with others in their elation and euphoria, apprehension and exasperation, despair and woe. Of all the emotions, anguish is the loneliest and most isolating. Should one be able to share this burden in another’s time of trial, therefore, one is indeed a sympathetic person. Centuries ago, people started to express their feelings through songs and dances; when praying for a plentiful harvest, exulting in the success of a hunt, encouraging one another during the torment of backbreaking labour because of racism or slavery, or offering condolences on the death of someone close. Copyright © 2007 June Grandwells. All rights reserved. NextPrevious

3. Felicity, mirth, agitation, pique, despondency and repentance would emerge in our ancestors’ lives in much the same way that we experience them today. The origin of music was to share these very emotions. Thus, music is love. Some time ago, on a TV programme about art fraud, a connoisseur who had been the first to detect a major international fraud observed, “Art fraud has become common because people look more at the written label than the work of art itself.” Judgement should come from instinct. A simple feeling of like or dislike is sufficient reaction to a great work of art. Copyright © 2007 June Grandwells. All rights reserved. NextPrevious

4. Every so often I wonder whether we need as much information as we are given. A detective-like curiosity about the background of a piece or a thirst for academic knowledge may only deafen our sensitivity to music. A great deal of discipline and assiduity are necessary to comprehend elaborate works but inspiration and spontaneity must be given priority as the origin of music is invariably an intuition. Copyright © 2007 June Grandwells. All rights reserved. Previous Antique Frames: www.antiqueframes.eu / Wallpaper: httpwww.wallpaperdirect.co.uk