On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
We conservatory-trained musicians tend to be biased towards musicians whose background is similar to ours, and discount the abilities of those who came up via a different route. But conservatories graduate lots of mediocre musicians, and many brilliant musicians never attend conservatories. I think that's the essence of what Ryan is saying.
Well put. It's not just a matter of formal education either. My favorite client is an excellent musician who has plenty of conservatory training, but she just happens to be crummy at putting notes to paper. When she really needs to, she can produce a decent manuscript, but she'd much rather scribble it out just well enough for me to see what she really wants, and then pay me to clean it up. There's nothing wrong with that, and it certainly doesn't make her an inferior musician.
mdl
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