Dale Henderson on The Unique Power of Music

Michelangelo famously said that "every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." This is possible with a statue because it exists in one place, at one time. You can look at it and see the whole thing. But how does this apply to music? How do you "see" the whole of something that unfolds in time? As soon as each note is played, it disappears forever.The strange, crazy, exciting answer is that you can never grasp a piece of music as a whole. We can see the printed page, but that's not really music – it's just a symbolic representation of music. Actual music only exists as a living thing in real-time – inseparable from that one, never to be repeated moment when the sound is born, makes its impression on every soul there, and then vanishes permanently.More about Dale Henderson here: https://dalehendersonmusic.comFollow Dale on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dalehendersoncello/Twitter:https://twitter.com/dale_celloInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/dalehendersonmusic/

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