I thought you meant Louis... Idea is the same. :-)
Paul Delcour > From: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:30:22 +0300 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Evaluating Photographs > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:31:08 -0400 > > I distinguish between performers and composers and I should have written the > latter. However, I meant Johnny Cash. He could not read music but wrote > great stuff, and performed it, for more than 40 years. > > Don > _______________ > Dr E D F Williams > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams > Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery > See New Pages "The Cement Company from HELL!" > Updated: August 15, 2003 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Delcour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:21 PM > Subject: Re: Evaluating Photographs > > >> There's ton of musicians who cannot read a note: choral singers for one > and >> folk music makers for another. In fact for thousand of years people made >> music purely by ear, not sight. >> >> But to get on topic: I'm sure wonderful photographs have been made by >> completely ignorant people. It's just a pitty they probably never knew... >> >> :-) >> >> Paul Delcour >> >> >> >>> From: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:11:35 +0300 >>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: Evaluating Photographs >>> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:12:28 -0400 >>> >>> True. I enjoy music but don't claim to understand it -- especially the >>> twelve tonal stuff. However, one of the most successful musicians of our >>> time could not read a note of music. I'm sure you all know who that was. >>> >>> Don >>> _______________ >>> Dr E D F Williams >>> http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams >>> Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery >>> See New Pages "The Cement Company from HELL!" >>> Updated: August 15, 2003 >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Paul Delcour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:58 PM >>> Subject: Re: Evaluating Photographs >>> >>> >>>> O well, this brings up a lot. >>>> >>>> The story then states we shouldn't judge work by others unless we can >>>> produce the result we criticised. I do not agree. Any audience can say >>> what >>>> they want about any work, no matter what their skills are in the >>> particular >>>> field. The audience is the aim of the work in most cases, so why should >>> they >>>> not speak their minds and hearts? >>>> >>>> A woman once said she couldn't say anything about a concert, because > she >>>> didn't know the first thing about music. My dear lady, I said, please >>> enjoy >>>> the music to your hearts content and let your ignorance play no part in >>>> that. Otherwise nobody would ever be able to enjoy anything anymore. >>> There's >>>> few folk about that can judge a work of art with exceptional knowledge > and >>>> experience. >>>> >>>> I remember discussing auditioning for the music conservatory. How do > you >>>> judge someone to be musical and make it through to a diploma? There's > no >>> one >>>> set of fixed guidelines available. Even in photography no set of rules > can >>>> be the perfect judging instrument. Technically two or more photographs >>> could >>>> be close to perfection, but if the composition is not pleasing anyone, >>> what >>>> good are they but perhaps to the maker only? >>>> >>>> Now however, being criticised by someone who thinks he has knowledge > and >>>> understanding is terrible. There's no arguing with such a person. > Happens >>> in >>>> music a lot, must be so in any form of art. Lately a lady said the > choir >>>> sang a hymn too fast as in Germany it was sung much slower. I knew >>>> immediately this was no historic argument, purely a being used to one. > I >>> try >>>> to be as open as I can possibly be about what I know and when I simply >>>> don't. But when a choir demands leadership sometimes I have to play >>>> know-all. >>>> >>>> In the end it is only the beholder and the beholder alone who judges >>>> anybodys work. The maker chooses to aim at pleasing the beholder or > simply >>>> doing what he or she sees fit to make. And in between lies the whole >>>> fascinating world called life, where as a musician I aim to please, but >>> also >>>> try to fulfill my own musical dreams which may never please anyone but >>> me... >>>> >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> Paul Delcour >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > >
