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examining major musical talent focus on a retrospective of the artist's career. Musical Minds delves into the question of how musical talent develops, how inspiration is born and the mental processes artists practice in order to create.
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 While the origin of an artist's aptitude for music may be obvious, the means by which they create is less so. Brian Wilson calls it "an inspiration from God", and Tracy Chapman feels it is "a completely mysterious process." For Diane Warren the solution isn't so elusive; she says her formula is "rolling my sleeves up and going to work." Mark Mothersbaugh relates how his music was partly inspired by the Vietnam War-induced strife he experienced in 1960's Ohio, and the murder of four of his Kent State classmates by National Guardsmen.
Musical Minds provides insight into the way artists of several generations and varying styles create their music, illustrating their surprising differences and startling similarities. |
As one might expect, the foundation for the artists' talents are most often formed in childhood with supportive, musical parents. For example, Stewart Copeland's father was an accomplished musician as well as a CIA station chief, and took a supervisory role in Stewart's early musical education. Nancy Wilson's family regularly played and sang together, and Lalo Schifrin's father was a first violin for the Buenos Aires Philharmonic.BACK