Klarinet Archive - Posting 000756.txt from 1999/01

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Non-professional playing
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:36:24 -0500

Lelia wrote:
<snip>
>there's something fundamentally different and more
>satisfying about making my own music than there is about using music as a
>spectator sport.

For me, this is the crux of the matter. Not sharing your performance
problems, I have no problem playing or singing in public, or at least no
problem I can't deal with. (After all of the lectures I have given in my
career, I have to have developed some sang froid.) So perhaps I have more
outlets for making music than you do, but I agree with the concept - better
to make less-than-perfect music while striving for excellence than to refuse
to play because perfection is beyond me. And I'm going to have a ball when
I retire and can take the time to take some lessons.

Your "spectator sport" analogy is a good one - I feel the same way about sports.

So keep at it, and do it your way!

Dr. George W. Kidder
Professor of Biology
Illinois State University

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