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Re: Musical question

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-10-01 14:30

That still strikes me as an odd question for a college interview, however I have in recent years thought about this comparison as an ensemble player. My wife is an actress and over the years have seen similarities in these fields. Actors take all the skills that they develop over the years to give the performance as dictated by the script, the director and the producers. Similarly an ensemble player has the musical road map before her/him, but then there are the parameters imposed by the dynamic of the ensemble itself (and I mean that regarding pitch, style, established tradition etc.) and the obviously the directions of the conductor (the first and last arbiter of how the final product should sound).

We hear all the time about iconic roles in movies that only through happenstance would have been performed by someone else (one example is that Buddy Ebson was originally supposed to be the "Tin Man" in the Wizard of Oz) and can't even imagine how different that would have been. I don't believe anymore that the difference would have been nearly as jarring as I previously thought.

Now if you are speaking more of a composer or singer/songwriter, then you are back to music as an expressive art rather than what would be seen as an interpretive one.

..................Paul Aviles

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