Reverence is for audiences and is about Endorphins not virtuosity. Practice doesn't make perfect, perfection of execution (like walking) is where interpretation begins. Perfection is perfect flexibility, most people consider it to be over control unless they are a artist or Olympic athlete.
Correct Practice repeated 10,000 times makes perfectly flexible and then you have the right to consider interpretation which is the beginning of Mastery. Only correct habit raised to the level of natural intuition is qualified for Mastery but if you go to Harvard and pay their fee and take a curriculum of courses passing a test of "one time only" questions they will name you a "Master" and give you a "degree" of something although I know not what. I've always had some of those graduates in my studio. Their processing is admirable but their technique suffers a lack of long tones, resonance and legato. They are fast in their thinking but inflexible in their sustainability of tone. Their technical foundations in performance are poor unless its intellectual games and they are unequaled at that. That's why you don't get to be a surgeon on a Bachelors, Masters or PHD even from Harvard. You have to go to performance medical school where they strip you naked work you for 20 hours at a time allow no more than four hours for sleep and food and work you whether you are sick or not. It's a degree about the ability to holistically function not just intellectually. Concert musicians are no different and they practice up until they are put in the box because they CAN lose it. Not oracle, that's a computer program, "ordinary" the extra-ordinary must become ordinary and the sacr-ifice makes you not fear the sacr-ed. Worship simply means worthy, like in Shakespeare. Worth is the failure of business and Wall Street, the third step where purification is supposed to happen but rarely does in the capital marketplace. Politics and financial power become the name of the game rather than the morality makes responsible people. The population problem is a problem of morality and responsibility. There's a whole academic school called Social Domains that is about the development of morality in children. It's not broad enough and I take my term from the Domain of Science in engineering from my two Engineer teachers. One built Nuclear Power Plants for Westinghouse and the other is known as a founding father of Systems Science and formed the only Scientific School of Complexity built around solving the limitations of human perception and the psycho-physical instrument. They were both Lieber Meisters. I feel sad that they both have imperfect instruments to carry on their work now that they are gone. REH -----Original Message----- From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 7:17 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] FW: [Dewayne-Net] Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization If I revere 7, and practice (whatever) a lot, can I be a master too? Steve On Sep 15, 2013, at 12:34 AM, Ray Harrell wrote: > Or find a way to value the development of the human instrument in the > service of a more brilliant culture and society. Robotics and automation > will never replace artistry and human development although they can count > faster and do more than seven syllogisms at a time. Relational mapping in > Interpretive Structural Modeling works with the implications of a > couple of hundred syllogisms and their relationships almost instantly, > through the computer. I'm not qualified to discuss that and inhabit the position of an > amateur in relation to it. I'm sure the math and engineering folk on this > list will look at me as the musicians looked at the scientist enjoying > singing Don Giovanni. I hope you will be as compassionate. Amateurs do > it for two reasons, love and the benefit to the general culture for your > efforts. (What Keith calls Epigenes.) As Feudalism showed in the 18th > century, some of the Aristocratic Amateurs can even become Masters as a > result of practice and discipline. That's probably better for a society > than Coca-Cola, Tar Sands and Fracking in spite of their "productivity." > > REH > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
