Interesting...Just switched on the radio, and heard Strauss's Don Quixote. I listened & thought: "I agree with much of what this cellist does. It's not me, tho'; I play it differently. Who can it be?' I looked it up; it was- me + @mn_orchestra /De Waart in 1990! Does one change?
I find it striking that Paul Dirac was an expositional Platonist; he believed that each concept has an ideal pedagogical form, which maximizes its intelligibility. When he'd come as close to this form as he could, he'd repeat the resulting explanation verbatim, over and over.
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A little different??
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Yes, it is a little different, but still very similar. Both Dirac and Rachmaninov believed that there is a unique ideal way to communicate the meaning of a work of art. When one has gotten as close to that ideal as one can, any change in one's approach can only be for the worse.
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