On Mar 26, 2008, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't Classical music competitions make just such a connection?
I am talking about prizes or awards given after the fact for some kind of achievement, such as a body of work over a long time (Nobel) or shorter time (Pulitzer) for works made for another purpose, not paintings painted for a specific competition, such as the Prix de Rome. As for classical music competitions--besides being competitions, which is not what I had in mind--they are demonstrations of the performers' skill, not the composers' genius. Van Cliburn won the award, not Tschaikovsky.
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