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In Reply to: Huge difference here... posted by Ivan303 on July 11, 2014 at 19:11:02:
The point is, I'm evaluating a work of art. I'm not doing a thorough investigation into the morality, legality or all around goodness or badness of the artist, much less putting various artists on a comparative morality scale. Isaac Stern probably worked tirelessly to enhance his own reputation all the time, but only did bad things to other people occasionally.
And Stern was probably only "bad" in the sense of ungenerous -- using his contacts to make sure he got the best jobs and his rivals didn't in a competitive environment. John Marks suggests he may have been part of a monopolistic combination in restraint of trade -- the Arthur Judson / Ronald Wilford / CAMI axis of evil. Maybe so. My somewhat different point was, where someone like Rampal, for example, was generous to his colleagues, Stern was not. But again, the artistic product is far more important to me than whether he was a good man. Shakespeare was supposedly not such a nice guy. Does it really matter at this point?
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