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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000057.txt from 2003/11
From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Composers and their problems
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:02:51 -0500
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 09:46 pm, jennifer devey wrote:
> =A0=A0=A0 Jennifer, you're absolutely right that composers today have a
> difficult and often thankless job.=A0 I also agree that there are many
> talented composers whose recent works are under-performed and
> under-appreciated.=A0=A0
> =A0=A0=A0 However, I have little sympathy for composers who vent
> purposefully insulting and inflammatory tirades about other
> writers/performers, while admitting=A0little knowledge=A0about the others
'
> music.=A0
>
>
Who is perfect? Who never gets frustrated? Beethoven broke his piano
strings
in anger and misery, Satie grew potatoes in his.
A cry from the heart in an email is less devastating than the
amputation of an ear.
For those who struggle against the tide, compassion is rarely as freely
given as
criticism.
Who got the job, Telemann or Bach? What do we think of that today?
How many people in the top academic job in France (Director of the
National
Conservatory in Paris) would resign from their position because one of
their
students (Ravel) did not get the Prix de Rome through a political and
ignorant
mess up? Thank you M. Faur=E9 for having guts - how many others have sat
at
the sidelines in comfort and watched injustice and misery in all the
Arts?
With nothing but lousy cane in front of me and an important recital, I
have been
known to be less than generous towards mankind in general in my
verbalising.
Have you never known that feeling?
May he who never has, cast the first reed.
Jennifer
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -Garrison
Keillor, radio host and author (1942- )
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Jennifer Paull,
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
Rare music at the press of an oboe and a computer key
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