Harold Schonberg, Bach and Rightness.

[RonPrice]

RIGHTNESS

"There is no music in the literature," writes Harold Schonberg, "that has Bach's kind of rightness." There is rightness in an inevitability, an intelligence, in an organized sequence of notes, in a relation with religion and divinity, in a new harmonic language, sense and intensity which sets Bach off from his more timid and less inventive contemporaries. Nothing could interfere with his vision of music and his drive, nor his compulsion to saturate himself with his art. Even so, he expected the bulk of his music to disappear after his death, a subject which obsessed him. -Ron Price with thanks to Harold Schonberg, The Lives of the Great Composers, W.W. Norton, NY, 1981, pp.35-46.

Yes, a rightness here

in this endless poetic

which came after

they prayed for me

and I prayed for them

and her and went

again to the edge,

down and out in Dundas,

Windsor, Launceston,

Ballarat and Frobisher Bay--

due to some intensity,

mostly chemical,

some relation with religion

and divinity, mysterious,

inevitable, harmonic,

visionary, obsessive,

compulsive, all this,

with a strange attraction

to that undiscovered country

and its breezes, trees, sunshine

and roses and, yes, light.

Ron Price

1 October 2002

[Henry Butcher]

Absolutely! .....I for one, will be keeping his music alive.

[RonPrice]

Thanks, Henry....your response isappreciated.-Ron Price, Tasmania

[Kento]

As someone who likes J.S. Bach's music a lot, I enjoyed this.

[RonPrice]

Thanks Kento.-Ron