Violist Kim Kashkashian | VC 20 Questions Interview

[@EarlPartridge]

What a lovely human being! So natural, kind and warm

[@iCyclone]

She is so cool and interesting. I'm a violist, and she is tied with Pinchas Zukerman as my favorite violist. Those two are so different and I dig them both in totally different ways.

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Yeah, I did not realise that Zukerman was also a violist.

[@the_lord_of_the_wolpertingers]

Maestro, you're a godess!

[@stephaniehoran2223]

amazing woman♡♡

[@argosbraga]

I love her.

[@vidyaruchi4810]

Who is the composer she describes as the present day Bach? I'd like to look him up but don't know how to spell the name.

[@freiermensch6569]

György Kurtág

[@freiermensch6569]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kurt%C3%A1g

[@vidyaruchi4810]

@@freiermensch6569 many thanks.

[@removerecords4714]

Cool

[@theartofhealthycookingalme5687]

😳

[@violiniistt]

I'm quite shocked about the rumor part... Who would do something like that?!

[@joeseki4305]

György Kurtág is the present day Bach? Nonsense. She must be joking. In fact, there is no present day Bach, and we should not expect that there will ever be one. What we know as the tradition of classical music has run its course. It ended with the late 20th century. It's done. What we have with present day composition is a pale shadow of what came before. To compare modern day composers to Bach, or any of the great masters, is absurd.

[@millle1]

''For me, he is the present-day Bach...'' It's not nonsense, it's just her opinion, as this is yours...

[@eliasvieiraviola]

@@millle1 exactly!

[@joeseki4305]

@@millle1 If Kim said "I love the compositions of György Kurtág" or "For me, György Kurtág is a really cool composer" I would not have questioned the sense of what she said. Statements of personal taste need only make sense to the taster. However, not all expressions of opinion are unquestionable. She went beyond speaking of her own taste to offering an assessment of a composer's place in music history, which is not limited to her own preferences. You can't call someone "the present-day Bach" and not expect people to think you are making such an assessment. If I were to say, for example, that Bach was an insignificant composer, such a statement would represent my opinion, but would nevertheless be subject to scrutiny because it goes beyond my personal taste, and it would be reasonable to expect people to think I was not making sense.

[@Bowble]

Are you saying that we’ve reached the peak of music? What a sad way to look at it. Sure Bach was great but to say that we can’t ever be better than a 65 year old man from over 200 years ago is stubborn and pessimistic.

[@Bowble]

@@joeseki4305 it’s her opinion it shouldn’t matter to you that’s it. Opinion is not a measure of how questionable it is but just what someone thinks.