There are more important things than money or status.

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When you reach a certain point in your life, Ningen Isu finds you. They cannot be found otherwise. These gentlemen went to such prestigious colleges that had a very good chance of getting jobs at prestigious employers. But then, they picked to play music instead. Probably because of their intelligence, they realized that happiness was much more valuable in the long run than working for some "prestigious" a-hole and living a life of stress and misery as a result. 1780s japanese buddist monk, 1880s Meiji period scholar, 1980s yakuza in one video. This band sings about wanting a light shone on them yet they are the lightsource.They're not afraid to use silence as part of their music. I think the philosophical meanings of the song are prone to listener confabulation hence interpretations will differentiate from person to person, an unavoidable liability. I love Ningen Isu!

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Good topic!

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B) Silence in music can bring us in closer contact with ourselves, and can make our expression clearer. These are two closely related goals, and both are relevant for performing music, also for the Western music
I'll just offer a few examples:
1) Franz Joseph Haydn
Yup, this guy trained Beethoven . Haydn easily became one of my favourite composers because his compositions are “a blend between Beethoven and Mozart”, both melodious and epic He has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet.
Haydn's Seven Last Words has some very good uses of silence.
Joseph Haydn - The Seven Last Words of Christ / Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze
Introduzione in D minor — Maestoso ed Adagio (necessarily!)
Listen to Haydn's creation – best (on the topic under discussion) - Erste Abteilung- Introduktion: 0:01 - 5:29 ......exquisit !
The Menuetto of Haydn's symphony 104 has constant pauses which make you think: "where did the orchestra go?"

Prom 75: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra -- Haydn & R. Strauss Haydn - Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London' (necessarily 16:55- 21:55

Haydn - The Creation / Die Schöpfung (with Annette Dasch & Thomas Quasthoff)

Part I: The First Day

2) Samuel Osmond Barber
Barber Adagio for Strings Detroit Symphony Orchestra
And the climax of this wonderful piece is absolute silence, absolutely resounding! The grand pause at the climax of Barber's Adagio for Strings.
If you genuinely want to appreciate this piece by Barbor, watch the movie 'Platoon' by Oliver Stone.( Oliver Stone, who also served in Vietnam)..again. The Adagio is soundtracked throughout the film and adds a powerful, passionate lens to the mayhem of war. Samuel Barber managed to write something that belongs to eternity.
3) Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Lucerne Festival Orcherstra, Claudio Abbado -– conductor- "not from this world.")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsEo1PsSmbg
1:20- 1:24 12
The last note of Mahler 6 has three minutes of silence after it (not written in the score, but implied); sadly, audiences tend to interrupt before this silence has finished sounding...
Everyone will have their own examples of this — it’s subjective after all .

Re: Good topic!

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Thanks for the recommendation.

I could listen to you talk forever.