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Discussion on: The Art of Depression

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Fyodor

Art plays the bad role in the depression questions: art makes depression beautiful — the suffering, the pain (and suicide eventually — especially in music). Which is not true. All that is quite ugly. It's a road downwards. The only beautiful part is drawing yourself back — upwards from this pit. That's something that needs to be sung and painted — in bright (instead of noire) colors.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

That's why I'm writing another piece about Rachmaninov's 2nd concerto

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

@fyodorio so I have now written the piece about Rachmaninov drawing himself back from depression with music, inspiring me to do the same

I doubt I will translate it though, but in case automatic translators work nowdays, the piece is here

La musique qui me sort de la dépression

Concerto No 2 pour piano en DOm - Sergeï Rachmaninov - K. Zimerman

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