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WHAT ARE YOU FOR? 10:11pm on 06 May 2009 A few answers....
1) No Richard, Id just love Simon to come back for a concert or two. The magazine comment is just me being provocative Im focussing on the fact that this musicianship is innate, probably in all of our species, and that innateness can easily be messed up by talking. I know hed get the point of my jibe, and, judging from what he was saying in the interview, hed agree with me. Id love him to lead some forums for professional musos and the public talking about where were all going, talking about taking orchestras to Castlemilk or Ferguslie Park to get the kids to dance the Rite of Spring (what he did in Berlin and NY).......
2) Sorry about all the ?s in that last reply of mine (2, above). I certainly didnt write them even if I am a querulous old nark. The boffins tell me its because the independent company that processes blog replies to our website use systems that cant digest MS Word formatting! Well, if they cant handle MS Word, what planet are they from?
3) No Fi, its not a factor of my great age and experience, however heavily that might weigh on me. The point, I think, is: weve all got it. Most of us have it destroyed by our early nurture. I cant tell you how often Ive sat with musicians raving and ranting that learning to play the damn instrument boils down to UNLEARNING that early nurture and letting the body do what it knows best....and letting long buried feelings surface to enjoy the daylight. I sometimes wonder if playing a Paganini Caprice is really any more complex than running down a flight of uneven steps. Obviously, a professional instrumentalist or singer will (hopefully) acquire a range of highly specialised skills as would (hopefully) a brain surgeon or a trapeze artist. But were all born with the full starter pack of these skills (give or take some specific syndromes). What bugs me, as Ive hinted above, is the continental drift that is separating the country where music was something that the whole village did together from the country of brain centric classical music with the tsunami of commercialism raging through the straits between them.
Anthony

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