Klarinet Archive - Posting 000863.txt from 2001/09

From: "Daniluk, Bill" <bdaniluk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Musicians in trouble
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:06:56 -0400

I don't think that the enjoyment of the performer is taken into account by
the consumer of the entertainment in question - else why would there be
such a discrepancy between the money made by a world class baseball pitcher
and an Olympic pole vaulter. (Or between a world class clarinet player and
a world class rock star - I would imagine that the gratification of
performance would be similar).
BD

-----Original Message-----
From: Bilwright@-----.net]
Subject: RE: [kl] Musicians in trouble

I wonder if a case can be made for the theory:

Making music gratifies the performer, and therefore non-performers don't
feel the need to pay as much for the product.

After all, the performer is having enough fun already, right? and the
performer probably gets more pleasure out of the music than the
audiences does in the first place, right? That's why the performer
smiles so much and appears so caught up in his/her own emotions.
He/she would be playing even if you didn't pay anthing, right?

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