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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goe
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goe
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2023-12-27
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, or so the saying goes. Sometimes attributed to Frank Zappa, other times to Elvis Costello, this quote is usually intended to convey the futility of such an endeavor, if not the complete silliness of even attempting it. But Glenn Kurtz’s graceful memoir, Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music, turns the expression on its head, giving it a different meaning by creating a lovely, unique book.
Kurtz picked up the guitar as a kid in a music-loving family, attended the Long Island music school, and went on to play on Merv Griffin’s TV show before graduating from Tufts University. Motivating the young Kurtz was the dream of
reinventing
classical guitar, as if by his great ambition a-lone he could push it from the margins of popular interest to center stage-something not even accomplished by the late Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, perhaps the only artist of the form ever to reach anything resembling widespread celebrity.
This book reads like a love story of sorts: Boy meets guitar. Boy loves guitar. Guitar breaks boy’s heart or, more precisely, the ordinariness of a working musician’s life does so. "I’d just imagined the artist’s life naively, childishly, with too much longing, too much poetry and innocence and purity," Kurtz writes. " The guitar had been the instrument of my dreams. Now the dream was over.
Boy leaves guitar. Were the story to end here, this book would be a tragedy, but after nearly a decade the boy returns to guitar, and although he has lost the enthusiasm he had in his youth, he finds his love of the guitar again in a way he never could have appreciated before.
Although Kurtz is writing about a unique musical path, his journey speaks eloquently to the heart of anyone who has ever desperately yearned to achieve something and felt the sting of disappointment. "Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream—of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete—lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what it is," he writes. "Is that time and effort, that talent and ambition, truly wasted?" [br] As a young man Glenn Kurtz wanted to______
选项
A、surpass Andres Segovia’s achievement
B、Transform classical guitar
C、become a TV music star
D、live on arts
答案
B
解析
根据文中第二段的内容“Motivating the young Kurtz was the dream of reinventing classical guitar”可以看出库兹想改革古典吉他,所以B项符合文意。A项“超越安德烈斯·塞戈维亚的成就”,这是对文中内容“库兹想重新塑造古典吉他,这是安德烈斯都没有完成的事情”的曲解;C项“成为一名电视音乐巨星”;D项“靠艺术生活”,C、D两项在文中没有提到。
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