Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 2003/07

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Ignorance and competence
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:39:05 -0400

Tony Pay wrote:

> The usefulness of the article for us may be that reading it makes it
> more plausible that we should concentrate our own attention in a
> different direction.

It's important that the direction we choose be a productive one.
Has anyone on the list read Mark Salzman's novel "The Soloist"?
It's about a former child prodigy cellist who at age 18 found
himself unable to play in public and almost unable to bear his own
playing in private because he had become so aware of tiny intonation
flaws. Of course his issues are more complex than that, but the
hyper-awareness is a symptom--and definitely not a productive trait.
The book is a good one and I recommend it.

Claudia

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