Food & Music

I played Bach and Liszt for my teacher yesterday. He used a very interesting simile to compare the music of different stylistic periods.

"You need to have lots of characters when playing Liszt. It is not right if you just follow the score. Just like, um..... in Hong Kong, you have goose, right? And there are other food such as carrots, chicken etc and you have to choose what to eat. Unlike Bach or Mozart, you have to look carefully what the composer has written on the score. It is just like you eat what you are served. You have no choice."