Klarinet Archive - Posting 001376.txt from 1998/03

From: ryan Lowe <Ral@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Musician?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:38:01 -0500

Thank you very much for your response:) This was the most convincing
argument that I have heard about this in the past several weeks. You have,
in fact, completley changed my views and I thank you very much for that.
Indeed now, I see that I had not thought as much as I had imagined that I
had. Once again, this list has enlightened me. Thank you to everybody for
all of your responses

Ryan Lowe

>A musician is, by the etymology, is 'music person'. How can you say that
>someone who is limited to one instrument, albeit the fact that they may
>have mastered it, is not a musician?
>

>Musicianship is a love - you don't simply read notes on a page, you feel
>them. The composer comes back to life through your playing, and what
>he/she was emoting and conveying blends with your own interpretations, and
>you become the creator of an art form.
>
>It's not the different ways you can wiggle your fingers that make you a
>musician. It's the different ways you love the music.
>
>Shouryu Nohe
>Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
>http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
>Coffee Drinker, Musician, Otaku, Jesus Freak, Admirer of Women
>(Not necessarily in that order)
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>"Everything is kept in my heart. I am satisfied with that." - Ikari Gendo
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Ryan A Lowe