Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2011/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reger, Rheinberger and Busoni organ works
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:39:44 -0500

Kathy Williams wrote:
> Learned friends
>
> Thankyou for your messages of support. I will brave the list once more. I am a very sensitive soul, with a tenuous grasp on sanity at the best of times, but I believe that sensitivity is what enables me to listen to and play music with a childlike sense of wonder and joy.

I sensed that you were a "sensitive soul", and that can be a real
problem for people who project their own work to the public for critical
review, ESPECIALLY with the anonymity of the Internet thrown in.

It is important to remember that, 95% of the time on this list, the
criticisms we read are academic criticisms, not personal criticisms.
People are commenting on the content or the meaning, not on the
presenter. It is vitally important to be able to distance yourself from
your work personally, if you hope to survive in the world of YouTube.

The vast majority of us have never met each other, and we can't see
emotion or passion in an email. I think you need to continue doing what
you are doing, but you also need to be able to accept academic criticism
for what it is -- an attempt to refine and build, rather than an attempt
to cut down.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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