Really Chris?
They wouldn't think of firing the lute professor? Oh yeah, there is no
lute professor. No chance to eliminate 20 or so versions of "Kemp's
Jig."
Joe
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From: chriswi...@yahoo.com [mailto:chriswi...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sun 1/18/2009 10:16 PM
To: Mayes, Joseph; David Rastall
Cc: Lute List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: 'notable composers (lute, vihuela and guitar)'
Hi Joe,
No envy here. No Schadenfreude, either. It turns
out that our seemingly "more succussful and
accomplished cousin," musically mortgaged to the hilt
in the best of times, is going to face some really
hard times in the future. Can't take joy in that
prospect.
Really, if you were the chair of a music
department and you were forced by budget cuts to
eliminate a position, would you choose to fire the
piano professor, the choral conductor, the theory
teacher or the guitar guy? You'd quickly realize that
the world can do without yet another 20 student
versions of "Leyenda" (and 20 students who don't know
that the title of their favorite piece isn't even
"Leyenda").
I wish guitarists all the best of luck - I'm one
of them! Unfortunately, lack of a really significant
solo repertoire coupled with the absence of an
integral ensemble role means that things look bleak.
What's worse is that guitarists have no one but
themselves to blame for it all.
Chris
--- "Mayes, Joseph" <ma...@rowan.edu> wrote:
> I don't know why the world of classical guitar is
> of such interest to
> this list - although I believe it's natural to be
> interested and a
> little envious of a more sucessful and
> accomplished cousin.
>
> Joseph Mayes
>
>
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>
> From: David Rastall [[1]mailto:dlu...@verizon.net]
> Sent: Sun 1/18/2009 2:45 PM
> To: chriswi...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Lute List (E-mail)
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: 'notable composers (lute,
> vihuela and guitar)'
>
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:37 PM,
> <chriswi...@yahoo.com>
> <chriswi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Sorry to be a
> > downer but I'm afraid, despite the awesome
> technical
> > abilities of many performers today, that the CG
> world
> > is slipping from the heights it attained in the
> mid
> > 20th century once more into the cultural
> wasteland of
> > vapidity.
> Just goes to show that awesome technical ability
> doth not culture make.
> I don't think it's just the guitar players
> (although I agree that the
> CG world is more bland nowadays than it was in
> the old days). I
> think classical music in general has slipped from
> the "sad heights"
> it occupied in the early to mid 20th C. IMO the
> more that
> traditional culture slips through our fingers,
> the more we rely upon
> note machines, human or otherwise, to carry our
> music for us.
> It's a sad state of affairs. Personally, I blame
> Paganini. ;-)
> DR
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