Just like many celebrated musicians and esteemed J.S.Bach scholars of the past and present, at first Rozalina Gutman could not grasp the real meaning of J.S.Bach's Fugue-Parody at the time when she was assigned by her teacher to play it at the musical college entrance exam. This revelation came to her only three decades later. (See COMPARISON compilation for estonishing result of deactivated senses among most gifted representatives of the human race.). But, at the age of 14, she enthusiastically and diligently researched all related scholarly publications and listened to all available recordings by renown pianists, following them as the example. And as the result, her exam performance recieved the highest grade, allowing her to enter very competitive college music training program. Like most of professional musicians of the past and present, who were required to study and to perform J.S.Bach regularly at various college exams, unless she followed this false tradition, she would not be able to enter and to move through the path towards receiving her professional music educator's degree and teaching credentials from one of the world's most sophisticated music education system ever created (thanks to being well-funded by the governments of the countries, that at the time were a part of Soviet Union.)
(One of a number of 300 y.o. questions that J.S.Bach 's music legacy continues to reflect and to pose to today's neuroscientist: Why and how could this convention of the false "Golden" standard manage to sneak in and pollute even the world's finest music education system, and had become widespread and "international standard" for most music education institutions worldwide? )
Only three decades later, during one of the darkest moments, when everything failed in the life of this gifted, insightful, and yet most underprivileged starving musician, when she had to live a day at a time, relying only on music's healing power, the absurdities of the convention became not only irrelevant, but had to be abandoned, since it became an obstacle to the healing force of this music, that she felt all along intuitively, but was always reprimanded for by her well-meaning teacher. And this decision to trust her own senses worked as the real magic and delivered epiphanies of the new level of clarity:
Only those musicians, who would follow J.S.Bach's own conviction to perform his music with the bold emotional expression, could enjoy such a bold humorous musical parody he had written. Laughter in the company of the Maestro is the most special reward for following daring Music Therapy Master on the journey to emotional self-liberation. The unearthing of this musical joke of all time Music Genius showed his deliberate defiance of the time's musical rules and thus any performer of his musical joke has to break the ludicrous emotional repression dogmas of his time, demonstrating new, informed by his music concept of what "historically informed performance" is when it comes to defiant J.S.Bach.
Additionally, the discovery of his Fugue-Parody made it clear that J.S.Bach's music does not need special rules that restrict emotional expression, since its creator deliberately defied the rules of his time, and had exercised his special ability to do so, setting the new directions in music snd music therapy, and followed by other prolific composers-classics of the next generation... And among many other outcomes, musicians who play his music expressively, may no longer be accused in "committing the highest number musical crime of romanticizing J.S.Bach", but instead should be encouraged and praised for following the footprints of this all time foremost Genius Music Therapist in creating the most authentic connection with the audience through enjoying the beauty of all intricacies of his emotionally resonant music that allows for authentic expression...
And yet, even then, she still felt that she had to dare to break from the habitual and common emotional withdrawal, despite the indisputable evidence she found as well, and due to the expected retaliation to change in the professional music field...
But the results of following logic and heart were well worth it, indeed! The outcome of the artistic liberation was the first revelation of the blind spot, resulting from the blocked by convention vision and hearing senses, that followed by other insights, thanks to the ability of J.S.Bach's music to reflect our reality in the most powerful and profound ways upon achieving the sense of emotional liberation in his genius, filled with intricate complexities polyphonic music.
And among them came her clear understanding that her musical icon J.S.Bach avidly fought against this pathological trend of emotional repression, paradoxically, while taking incredible risks for self and family, and was thrown to jail for a month on November 6, 1717. And during his time, he had to dare to break the conventional music rules even more, ending up being thrown to jail for that, as well as for speaking the truth to the power, driven by the same obligation of the greater good, as his icon - the world's most famous whistle blower Jesus Christ.
So why did J.S.Bach risk so much, and became a controversial figure, unlike many other musicians of his time?.. This is also one of many 300 y.o. lessons J,S,Bach continues to pose to today neuroscientists.
No, not due to attributed to him "bad temper" he insisted on using prohibited dissonant sonorities... Contrary, his insistence was the result of his visionary ability to grasp the trends of the struggling with evolutionary relics human mind and to offer the musical toolkit for its advancement in the Hugh efficacy form of polyphony. And despite being followed by many of his virtual students, who had earned the title of CLASSICS at the Pantheon of Musical Fame throughout the music history, his music remains as the stellar achievement in healing properties, including incomparable ability to restore emotiona/intellectual balance, essential for optimal function, disrupted by stress /trauma, as well as to become aware and to address the trauma's outcome of tunnel vision. His unique choice of compositional tools in his music is the key to help propel evolution of the human brain and thus, to change the future of our civilization. And yet, having to be at the mercy of his uncivilized neighbors with the provincial castle town mindset did not allow for his visionary ideas to be implemented fully. In fact, archival records prove that J.S.Bach's (!) proposal for expanding HIS education program was denied funding by the City Council of Leipzig...
Most paradoxically, Ms. Rozalina Gutman attributes her ability to identify previously unnoticed features of his musical legacy, thanks to startling similarities in the faith of both musicians, made to be "starving" by the dire incivility of those with formal and informal powers in our society, despite living 300 years apart. (And the mystery of the same date for some of the most dramatic events in her life and the life of her icon is as sensational, as her discoveries... Subscribe for upcoming releases of her sensational detailed biographical narratives.)
The way our society treats the intangible and yet invaluable matter of Music & the Arts and musicians and artistes, had not changed much for 300 years, most paradoxically and to the great detriment to our Human civilization. And those who are in the vanguard positions of formal and informal intellectual leadership have an obligation to support our unique and promising strive to assist all members of our civilization in recognizing the pressing need to utilize this underutilized yet powerful, and intangible tool for transforming evolutionary young and often misfiring human brain.
Until then, the leadership of all levels has no right to proclaim the arrival of "The Age of Progress", since the associated with that production of yet another, newer technological gadgets does not improve the critical for our sustainability functions of the human brain, including those responsible for sensory awareness, critical for informing our self-preservation instinct, as well as various aspects of the civility and moral foundations that allowed for the collective survival of our species for millennia in the past, and that must remain for the sake of our shared future.
A few years after making her daring-driven discovery, Ms. Rozalina Gutman had stubled upon the underpublicized, yet most significant hard document evidence with J.S.Bach's own signature that answers the need to make official the permission to enjoy his music to the fullest, each note and each turn of each melody... And as the result, his music enabled so much of INNER RESONANCE that is most critical for using it for healing and restorative purposes.
This discovery now allows other musicians and their audiences to begin similar journeys to their emotional liberation, led by the visionary music of J.S.Bach. If they would choose to follow this path that Rozalina Gutman took, they too would find much satisfaction on their journey towards their Higher Human Potential, and they too can expect EUREKA! moments of discovering unique pathways towards emotional freedom from the compound and thus, hard to discern without musical embodiment PTSD of the traumatic cognitive dissonance that clouds clarity and is referred as "the prism of trauma", resulting in the blind spots of various nature. Indeed, nothing, no material goods, no luxury items can be more precious than the tangible ability of an individual to be capable of self-mastery and self-growth through the effective music-based self-reflection. (Our ancestors forwarned us to avoid the fixation of the Golden Idols, as the false priority in our life, and their words are as current and urgent as ever!)
The false educational standard, that banned emotional expression in J.S.Bach's music had been based on the distortions of his biographical facts. And, the leading authorities on his legacy should have clearly established at least in 60's, and decades ago that false excusiology has no merit to traumatize and enslave more and more victims of their resentment to change, practiced by those in the positions of intellectual leadership, while being unfit for such task... And as the result, the majority of pianists, with only a few exceptions avoid including music of J.S.Bach into their concert tours and recordings. No, of course, the music of J.S.Bach was not intended to be just a dry technical exercise. Of course, when the deeply emotional and composed to be intense music of his is forced to be performed with emotional withholding, it creates much inner discomfort and is traumatic (while caused by that trauma and associ cognitive dissonance is internalized and often unrecognized), instead of creating contrary and intended by the composer sense of release of emotional tension, in order to be effectively utilized for similar to the above applications for therapeutic purpose of seeking for the relief from cognitive dissonance and achieving satisfying outcome in one of the most challenging tasks that finally presents THE MOST SOUGHT AGTER, UNBOUND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNER GROWTH, SELF MASTERY AND COGNITIVE ADVANCEMENT BEYOND COMMON BLIND SPOTS. And, every musician who had been the victim of this hard to recognize impact of the above distortion deserves to find emotional resolution and to achieve the freedom from emotional imprisonment, as well as to pass on the same opportunity and to share these experiences with their audiences, allowing them to sense similar soul illumination, finally serving justice to the true intentions of the composer J.S.Bach.
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