Klarinet Archive - Posting 000453.txt from 2001/07

From: Mark Thiel <mark.thiel@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Another musician honoured!
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:16:48 -0400

Shouryu wrote:

>Then perhaps you might consider changing your terminology...May I
suggest
>my point of view? The etymology of musician is quite simply, "music
>person." It does not entail a level of ability or skill.

>. . .
>In turn, what you insist on calling a musician, I call an ARTIST.
>. . .

Yep, no sense in trying to make words mean more than they mean. If
you say someone's a "consummate musician" we know you mean
that he produces music in a way you agree with; if you just
say he's a "musician" you're just saying he produces something that's
music by someone's definition.

Of course, even the term "artist" has complications. I hang around
sometimes
with people who dabble paint, and have been asked, on occassion, if I'm
an artist. Since I display even less artistry dabbling paint on canvas
than
I do playing a clarinet I find this question a bit nonplussing.

And then, my favorite lines of _The Mikado_ (found the exact quote in
about
10 seconds, isn't the net amazing, sometimes?) are:

Nanki-Poo

. . . What if it should prove that, after all, I am no musician!

Yum-Yum

There! I was certain of it, directly I heard you play!

Mark Thiel

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