Klarinet Archive - Posting 000456.txt from 2000/01

From: "W. Edinger" <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] best efforts, great rewards
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 03:01:27 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:

"I once was in England and a town band in the midlands
was playing the Mozart overture to Marriage of Figaro.
At first I was shocked, but then everyone was so
enoying the music that I realized that they were doing
the rightest possible thing for what they had and for
the audience that made the effort to come and listen.
Any other attitude carries with it an elitist view
that doesn't belong in music. "

A 20th century British composer - I believe it was either Britten or
Vaughn Williams - once commented on an amateur group's efforts at music
that some might have thought was above their capacity by saying "If
something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly." And he meant it in
the most positive, approving way, of course. Can anyone clear up for me
who it was who said this?

Bill Edinger
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- Ralph W. Emerson

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