Comments for Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin Birmingham based drummer and percussionist specializing in Folk and Jazz Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-97 Lydia Glanville Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:30:14 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-97 Ah I see, I hope to run into you sometime then! Ah I see, I hope to run into you sometime then!

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Pete Sheehan http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-92 Pete Sheehan Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:21:21 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-92 Hello Lydia. Did a gig at the theatre Severn last year and went to lots of gigs to watch. I know some musicians that you know and I discovered you on a friends facebook page. Curiosity led me to your site after a late night practise/insomniac session. I found all the posts stimulating. Collective madness is comforting. Yes I think music is becoming more localised and Jazz (or Twentieth Century Urban Folk as I like to call it) is beginning to get the same communal vibe as folk and general acoustic music. more egalitarian and democratic rather than a gladiatoral spectacle. Like most art forms this kind of Zeitgeist tends to be cyclical. Of course I may just be perceiving the world differently these days.. Hello Lydia. Did a gig at the theatre Severn last year and went to lots of gigs to watch. I know some musicians that you know and I discovered you on a friends facebook page. Curiosity led me to your site after a late night practise/insomniac session. I found all the posts stimulating. Collective madness is comforting.
Yes I think music is becoming more localised and Jazz (or Twentieth Century Urban Folk as I like to call it) is beginning to get the same communal vibe as folk and general acoustic music. more egalitarian and democratic rather than a gladiatoral spectacle. Like most art forms this kind of Zeitgeist tends to be cyclical. Of course I may just be perceiving the world differently these days..

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-91 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:34:22 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-91 Great poem. I think the hardest bit about being creative is making that leap and putting it out there. As for what he means about the poem supreme addressed to emptiness I guess that could mean a lot of things. What do you think it means? Teaching terrified me when I first started and still does at the Conservatoire! Great poem. I think the hardest bit about being creative is making that leap and putting it out there. As for what he means about the poem supreme addressed to emptiness I guess that could mean a lot of things. What do you think it means? Teaching terrified me when I first started and still does at the Conservatoire!

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-90 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:31:23 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-90 Do you ever regret ceasing to be a professional musician? Do you ever regret ceasing to be a professional musician?

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-89 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:30:48 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-89 I admire you Emma, thanks for your contribution. I admire you Emma, thanks for your contribution.

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-88 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:30:20 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-88 It is interesting that you say there is less need for live music now and yet there seems to be music festivals cropping up everywhere and people attending them..... I think music is beginning to become more localised, as it was pre-radio and recorded music. Now recorded music is instantly available for free and musicians don't make money that way any more. I think with the increasingly secular and isolated society that we live in these days people look to music festivals as pseudo-religious experience, it unites them with others and gives a sense of community. Discuss... It is interesting that you say there is less need for live music now and yet there seems to be music festivals cropping up everywhere and people attending them….. I think music is beginning to become more localised, as it was pre-radio and recorded music. Now recorded music is instantly available for free and musicians don’t make money that way any more. I think with the increasingly secular and isolated society that we live in these days people look to music festivals as pseudo-religious experience, it unites them with others and gives a sense of community.

Discuss…

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-87 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:26:06 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-87 I agree that there isn't really a place that we are going or some pinnacle that we will reach. I find that whenever I achieve something that a few years ago I was dying to do I have actually forgotten that I wanted to be able to do that and I'm already after something else. When I was around 16 or so I thought wouldn't it be great to have a gig in bar just once, I'd be so happy if that happened. By the time I'd had a gig or two in bars I was thinking, when I am I going to stop playing in bars and get in some decent venues?! I agree that there isn’t really a place that we are going or some pinnacle that we will reach. I find that whenever I achieve something that a few years ago I was dying to do I have actually forgotten that I wanted to be able to do that and I’m already after something else. When I was around 16 or so I thought wouldn’t it be great to have a gig in bar just once, I’d be so happy if that happened. By the time I’d had a gig or two in bars I was thinking, when I am I going to stop playing in bars and get in some decent venues?!

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-86 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:22:23 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-86 I think madness is essential to be a musician as Pete said most people are to scared by the chance of failure. We are mad enough to not let that stop us! I think madness is essential to be a musician as Pete said most people are to scared by the chance of failure. We are mad enough to not let that stop us!

]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Lydia Glanville http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-85 Lydia Glanville Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:21:09 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-85 I agree about the fear Pete. Fear is definitely the most debilitating emotion. What sort of playing do you do now? And out of interest how did you come across my site? L I agree about the fear Pete. Fear is definitely the most debilitating emotion. What sort of playing do you do now? And out of interest how did you come across my site?

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]]> Comment on Survival Within The Arts by Pete Sheehan http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308&cpage=1#comment-84 Pete Sheehan Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:53:12 +0000 http://www.lydiaglanville.com/admin/?p=308#comment-84 Having taken up music in my twenties in London and not being ready or "good enough" It took me years of day jobs in construction,retail and finally musical instrument repair (which made me very ill) to realise that the only thing i'm good at is playing my instruments, teaching and composing. Unfortunately this has come to me in my fifties after a long period in the wilderness. Post-illness and nearly restored to fitness now I'm ready to try again. Yes creative people are creative in all directions but in my case things have of necessity changed due to malfunctions in my internal operating system ( the internal equivalent of going back to Windows 95) As a jazz musician first and foremost I had to get over that ego problem that makes you want to compare yourself with other better players, often to an unhealthy degree. In the 80s there were1,300plus saxophone players in the London MU directory. Daunting. I am now a bigger fish in a smaller pond elsewhere. The question is will the pond dry up? When I worked full-time I felt that I could just play the music that I liked. I also felt that if I took the leap into the thing I most loved failure would be too humiliating/heartbreaking etc. Thats the reason why some of your associates pull away from the thing they most love. Another one is being involved with non-artistic partners or friends and feeling that what you do is selfish.There is a little person inside lots of us that just does not want to be happy.I really would like to know how many people are in the wrong jobs! But of course the main reason is financial necessity.. Having taken up music in my twenties in London and not being ready or “good enough” It took me years of day jobs in construction,retail and finally musical instrument repair (which made me very ill) to realise that the only thing i’m good at is playing my instruments, teaching and composing. Unfortunately this has come to me in my fifties after a long period in the wilderness. Post-illness and nearly restored to fitness now I’m ready to try again. Yes creative people are creative in all directions but in my case things have of necessity changed due to malfunctions in my internal operating system ( the internal equivalent of going back to Windows 95) As a jazz musician first and foremost I had to get over that ego problem that makes you want to compare yourself with other better players, often to an unhealthy degree. In the 80s there were1,300plus saxophone players in the London MU directory. Daunting. I am now a bigger fish in a smaller pond elsewhere. The question is will the pond dry up? When I worked full-time I felt that I could just play the music that I liked. I also felt that if I took the leap into the thing I most loved failure would be too humiliating/heartbreaking etc. Thats the reason why some of your associates pull away from the thing they most love. Another one is being involved with non-artistic partners or friends and feeling that what you do is selfish.There is a little person inside lots of us that just does not want to be happy.I really would like to know how many people are in the wrong jobs! But of course the main reason is financial necessity..

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