In Reply to: RE: For years, it's been bandied about by the music cognoscenti that young posted by middleground on April 16, 2014 at 09:31:07:
And criticism is not catch phrases. Could you be specific? Do you have certain performers or, better yet, performances in mind to exemplify your points?And, surely you have heard of the "flash of insight"? Seems to me that can happen at any time.
And lastly, I contend that there IS a show-business aspect to music making, but if some listeners prefer the pious "sackcloth and ashes" aspects of it [EDIT: an approach which, I'm convinced, is itself a type of show business!], who am I to criticize their taste? ;-)
EDIT: BTW, if you're worried that "music is not the circus", you might want to direct some of your criticism to old masters such as Vladimir de Pachmann who, as George Bernard Shaw once reported, "gave his well-known pantomimic performance, with accompaniments by Chopin"! ;-)
Edits: 04/16/14 04/16/14 04/16/14
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