28 May
2008
28 May
'08
7:44 p.m.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:49:13PM +0100, Frank Wales wrote:
Reminds me of a comment I heard once by a professional
symphony orchestra
musician about some of his conservatory-trained colleagues: "they're
wonderful musicians, but they couldn't play 'Happy Birthday' without
the score in front of them."
Having worked with hundreds of not thousands of them, I can only
report that most of them are perfectly capable of playing "happy
birthday" without a score and in any key you want.
There are exceptions - some of them somehow managed to get their
official credentials without having any musical feeling - but
these are exceptions.
Ciao,
--
FA
Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
Parma, Italia
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