-- Hans, It has been my pleasure to have heard Steve play around the Detroit area for some time. He is a professional in every way! Not only playing but he has a very good reputation for repairing horns, (sorry Steve to do this to you since you are having so much fun at Hans' expense). Hans, Steve is rattling your chain...hehehe...and you bit like a big trout after a lure...
Have a great day, everyone Walt Lewis >Hans Pizka schrieb: >Is this so, really ? Than you have no place in serious music making. To >play music professionally (you said the fat cash earned !), you reproduce >written or unwritten music to enjoy other people. Right. > >You have become a musician by dedication, by devoting your life to serve >the composer & the audience for reproduction of their creations, for the >relax & enjoyment, also to awake people from the day-by-day often so >boring or triste life. You play also music driven by your enthusiasm for >the arts. You play also music as some kind of "producing yourself" infront >of an audience, as another form of self realization, as another form of >self entertainment, as a certain form of auto therapy for your mental & >physical health & the health f others. > >This should cover most aspects of music making including service in >churches or similar buildings, ceremonies & organisations. > >Money comes last. It is earned as in most professions or "gigs", different >in scale depending on skill, classification, size of entertainment (in the >widest meaning of the word) & other factors. Often music is just played >without the inviolvement of money. > >Playing music instead of working ? What does that mean ? Instead of hard >physical work ? Can understand that. In the military band ? Can understand >that as it was safer in the band than on the front. Today there is no more >safety nowhere. So it does not count. > >Playing music might give some benefits for you, be helpful when seeking >for a job if the organisation (you like to join) has an orchestra or a band. > >Music is a good therapy for the brain and if wind instruments are >involved, also a good therapy for health by using the "controlled breath" >system. > >Just a few thoughts.- >............................................. > > > > > > > Why do you play music at all ? > -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.406 / Virus Database: 229 - Release Date: 10/21/02 -- _______________________________________________ Horn mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/listinfo/horn