Friedrich Gulda, late world famous pianist & very good at saxophone played an entire concert accompanied by his female percussion companion here in Munich - both nude completely. Was a great success, but not because they were nude.
Question: why would it be a slight inconvenience dressing properly to show players respect for the audience ?? Does dressing properly mean some inconvenience for a lot of players, special younger players ? Appearing at an audition dressed not respecting the jury means minus points at least no matter how good you play, but overdressing will not give you any plus points either. Just clean normal dressing would be enough. #################################################################################### Am 16.03.2011 um 08:02 schrieb Steve Haflich: > Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: > > If audiences have nothing more to do than to examine dresses of performers > or > how much spit is dropped from the the instruments - measured in pints or > liters > does not matter - , there could be several reasons: > > bad or boring pieces, bad or boring performance or > > a stupid, uneducated, unexperienced, antimusical audience. > > Indeed, I agree. But one cannot go to extremes. There is a reason for > appropriate concert dress, just like there is reason for wearing proper > clothes to a job interview: It indicates that the performer is willing > to go through slight inconvenience in order to respect the task of > making a performance. If the performer can;t respect what he does, he > cannot expect anyoe else to respect it. > > Hans -- If you disagree, I'd encourage you to test my hypothesis by > playing your next guest concerto performance nude. See if the audience > notices. I expect even the critics might notice! See if anyone > comments whether you missed any notes... > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
