Darcy James Argue wrote:
[snip] Josh Bell is talented, of course, but I've walked by *lots*
of very talented buskers without a moment's pause. [snip]
Galen Brown has a good piece on this on S21 -- "Why the Joshua Bell
Experiment Tells Us Nothing": http://www.sequenza21.com/forum/?p=36
Most of us fail to "stop and smell the roses" often enough.
Deconstructing the experiment, as Galen Brown does quite well,
doesn't really alter the point of the Weingarten's object lesson.
Speaking of Sequenza21 and Joshua Bell, I was amused by this
<http://www.sequenza21.com/index.php/366#comments>response to Joshua
Bell becoming a composer:
"But I do believe the people who are the most immortal are the
composers. The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he
knows who Mozart is. And I'd like to compose."
- Joshua Bell, from a
<http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/05/joshuabell.fisher/index.html>CNN
story on his win of the Avery Fisher Prize
April 7th, 2011: Gerald called. Says if I don't do Tchaik in Berlin
this November I can kiss my contract goodbye. Sigh. My cello sonata
needs the time. I just got the draft back from Yo-Yo who has
reservations about the dead butterflies. But that's the sound I
want!! He'd do it, but I can tell he'd rather not . . . And Manny
still can't get the hang of bowing piano strings. I've showed him
ten million times, but . . . Anyway so I have to put the entire
thing back under the knife. Also heard from Sony. They want to hear
"exosphere" before agreeing to record. Fair enough, but you try to
find twelve accordion players who are available the same afternoon
for a session! Ugh. And Edgar's in town next week and wants to have
dinner at Saint Georges. I guess I can spare the money. He's a pal,
and, who knows? Maybe I can get him to commission that bass and
percussion piece I've been thinking about . . . Oh and the rehearsal
with Hillary? Disaster. Ask her to play double-stop trills, no
problem. But write one measly microtone, and forget it: we spent
twenty minutes on one single note, and I'm still not sure she has
it. At least the fifth annual S21 concert at Carnegie was awesome.
Wish those guys would show me some love . . .
-Randolph Peters
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