She must have learned to read fairly well to become concertmaster
Yeah, and then she became concertmaster of the San
Jose Symphony but topped out there. The fact that
she got spewed out into the world of professional
orchestras when they were bankrupting left and
right didn't much help.
Not the best climate to be in, to be sure....
It hasn't gotten any better, either.
There's a few orchestras that are on a better footing than that now....
Last I checked, the Boston Symphony was the only
orchestra in the US actually making money, and
there was a rumor from the back office that that
was at least partially a fiction. Philly went
bankrupt sometime in this decade; it was bailed
out, though, which many of the second-tier ones
such as many of my friends and colleagues were in,
for example, San Jose and New Orleans, had not been.
reader. Given varying amounts of practice our
level of competency with a particular piece
would intersect, and with further study she
would invariably outstrip me.
And, true, reading is only part of it... :)
Reading was my forte, if you will, and now of
course it's not a picnic any more.
Indeed. Now you have to rely more on memory....
Study, too. I went to a rehearsal not long ago
where I couldn't read a note but hadn't seen
some of the music before, either. That was
embarrassing. I'm become more distanced from
the things I loved as my faculties become ever
more unreliable. Something else in the losing my
touch department: I was making fun of this piece
of music - the pianist for my Schumann quartet
was given the unattributed sheet by one of her
accompanyees, and she guessed it was cutesy-poo
Schubert, and I said it sounded more like Mozart
at his most infantile. Turned out to be Beethoven
Op.52, of which according to allmusic.com
a contemporary review of the op. 52 songs in
the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung describes
the set as "commonplace, poor, weak, in part
ridiculous stuff."
At least I got the weak and ridiculous part if not
the right composer.
Interesting case. How far did she progress in both
directions? I hope enough to get some personal
satisfaction out of it.
We never went past that first book, but I believe that just learning
that she could make music herself was a personal satisfaction... I don't
know how far she progressed with reading words, but just being able to
do it some was an achievement.... :)
A sense of personal accomplishment is pretty
important and something that escapes many musicians
of considerable attainments.
in a world of unlimited resources, they could be
exactly replicated, unless it was discovered that
there were other rules at work.
Kinda what I was getting at.... the lack of unlimited resources, and the possibility of other rules at work....
If it's important enough, the resources can be
retargeted to that purpose. Other rules are
likely to get into the metaphysical.
If considered important enough, anyway.... ;)
Dollar value being the commonest metric of
importance these days, which is a shame.
Indeed.
Which has something to do with music's plight
as well.
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Title: Chicken Pot Pie # 2
Categories: Poultry, Vegetables
Yield: 6 servings
4 Boneless chicken breasts 1 c Milk
1 Can cream chicken soup 1 Box frzn peas &
carrots;
1 Can cream celery soup 1 c SELF-RISING flour
1 c Swanson's chicken broth 1 ts Baking powder
1 Stick margarine; melted
Spray baking dish well with Pam. Remove skin and cut each chicken breast
into several pieces. Place on bottom of baking dish. Mix soups and broth
and pour over chicken. Defrost frozen peas and carrots in microwave.
Scatter over top of chicken pieces. Mix milk and melted margarine. Add a
little bit of flour and baking powder at a time to the milk and
margarine.
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