cubezero3
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Hi, everyone.
I am watching a documentry about Bach. In the documentry, Robert Marshall, who is a music professor in Brandeis University, says the following:
He lost his parents at the age of ten. And I think that drama, that shuddering experience, formed his outlook on the world for the rest of his life. He felt abandoned. He felt the world would be a deceitful, untrustworthy place. This worked very well with his religious understanding as a Lutheran where the same attitude towards the world is preached. In many ways what he then was going to do with his music was to, in a sense, create his own world, his own better world, the perfect world, in a sense he himself is going to become a creator.
The whole story is told in past tenses and all of a sudden he uses is at the end.
I did some research on bing.com and according to what I found I would assume he is a native speaker of the language.
See the link here:http://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=9d6e7a17246d137200237a48208b32ed6082d0d8
I've read that it is acceptable for one to use present tenses to describe a historic event. But I don't understand why he suddenly changes the tense to present. Is this is a kind of usage intended to deliver time-related imformation which I failed to receive? Or this is simply a mistake on his part?
The preofessor prosounces it very clearly. However, the likelyhood of a faux par on my side remains. So I will put down the link through which you can listen to it at 11:04. You will have to wait until the end of some advertisements which last about one minute.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjQxNjUxNjYw.html
Many thank
Richard
PS: I realised I used what wrongly in the title but it's already too late to change it.
I am watching a documentry about Bach. In the documentry, Robert Marshall, who is a music professor in Brandeis University, says the following:
He lost his parents at the age of ten. And I think that drama, that shuddering experience, formed his outlook on the world for the rest of his life. He felt abandoned. He felt the world would be a deceitful, untrustworthy place. This worked very well with his religious understanding as a Lutheran where the same attitude towards the world is preached. In many ways what he then was going to do with his music was to, in a sense, create his own world, his own better world, the perfect world, in a sense he himself is going to become a creator.
The whole story is told in past tenses and all of a sudden he uses is at the end.
I did some research on bing.com and according to what I found I would assume he is a native speaker of the language.
See the link here:http://www.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=9d6e7a17246d137200237a48208b32ed6082d0d8
I've read that it is acceptable for one to use present tenses to describe a historic event. But I don't understand why he suddenly changes the tense to present. Is this is a kind of usage intended to deliver time-related imformation which I failed to receive? Or this is simply a mistake on his part?
The preofessor prosounces it very clearly. However, the likelyhood of a faux par on my side remains. So I will put down the link through which you can listen to it at 11:04. You will have to wait until the end of some advertisements which last about one minute.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjQxNjUxNjYw.html
Many thank
Richard
PS: I realised I used what wrongly in the title but it's already too late to change it.
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