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Author: wjk
Date: 2003-04-14 19:39
How would BB readers define "genius?" Does one have to break new ground to be a genius? How about a performer who interprets a work in a new and daring way without perfect technique vs. one who imitates past performances impeccably?
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-04-14 20:09
Any dictionary will tell you, more or less. IMHO, being "impeccable" certainly has nothing to do with being a genius. In fact, impeccability and ingenuity seem to me to be contradictions in terms. Being "new" and/or "daring" may be a necessary but insufficient condition for being a genius. Most new and daring things are in fact pretty (or very) stupid. Other new and daring things are initially considered equally "stupid" but prove later to have enormous positive impact on one or more areas of human endeavor. Those ideas simply arrive "before their time" and are initially laughed at (or worse) by those entrenched in conventional thinking (e.g., Galilei vs the Church). Other ideas, such as Watson and Crick's proposal for the structure of DNA, have immediate impact. But, sorry, what does this have to do specifically with the clarinet?
Henry
Post Edited (2003-04-14 21:11)
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2003-04-14 20:42
Someone who can play a great concerto at the age of 14 would be considered highly gifted. Someone who can compose one is a genius!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-14 21:06
Nequ enim cuiquam tam ckarum statim ingenium, ut possit emergere, nisi illi materia, occasio, fautor etiam commendatorque contingat.
No man's genius, however shining, can raise him from obscurity, unless he has industry, opportunity, and also a patron to recommend him. - Pliny the Younger (about 100 AD)
...GBK
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-04-15 00:52
My dictionary says a genius is a person with great natural ability of some special kind; also a person who powerfully influences another. Innovation does not appear to be part of the definition.
Hans
Semper ubi sub ubi.
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Author: ALOMARvelous12
Date: 2003-04-15 01:31
Ego non possum intellego Latinum, Glenne Kantore e Hanse Jacobse.
Post Edited (2003-04-15 02:35)
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Author: PJ
Date: 2003-04-15 23:13
"Semper ubi sub ubi"
I LOVE IT! Hans, you are SOOOOO bad!! ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Author: hans
Date: 2003-04-15 23:43
Thank you PJ. It was very nice of you to say so. ![[happy]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley12.gif)
Pax vobiscum,
Hans
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