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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So in another section, someone asked a question about classical music. Well, I'm here to prove that DCUM is one of the worst places to ask about classical music, even in the entertainment section. People on DCUM are way too serious to appreciate an artistic concept like music. So I'm going to ask a series of questions, and I'm hoping that all the "I don't knows" and "no's" will prove that DCUM is a terrible place to discuss classical.

1. Did you ever play an orchestral instrument?
YES

2. If yes to 1, what age did you start and what age did you quit? 8 THROUGH COLLEGE

3. If there was an orchestra at your high school, were you in it? YES

4. If yes to 3, what year in high school were you when made it into the top orchestra if ever? SOPHOMORE

5. Did you ever participate in any all-state orchestras? YES

6. If so, what years? JUNIOR AND SENIOR

I can't wait for people to see these responses and know that they should post classical music questions on DCUM again.[/quote]

AND I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL YOU THAT MY BEST FRIEND FROM COLLEGE IS JOSHUA BELL[/quote]

Very nice, I'm sure, but in the classical music world, he's not that hot. There is a difference between the most effective marketers of themselves (your friend Joshua) and the ones who are truly, undeniably, the most gifted musicians of their generation - those usually don't have the selling temperament, but connaisseurs recognize them just the same.[/quote]

OK, hot shot. You, yourself are either better trained/more talented than Joshua Bell, or you are not. If you aren't, then shut up and get over yourself.[/quote]

I am voicing the opinions of a lot of very talented musicians, but that is not why that makes it true. Like in many other activities, expert reviewers don't need to excel at the activity itself. They need to be expert [u]observers[/u] of the activity. So here, they need to to know the score inside out down to every last note with its particular inflection, they need to have listened to every major musician playing that same piece, they need to have technical knowledge of bowings, fingerings, anatomical details of movement during that piece, and also historical knowledge of the composer's intentions, the political and artistic context if applicable, the original soloist chosen to play the piece and why, as well as the arranger's intentions and how the composition of the current orchestra may differ from the original one.

Don't speak of what you don't know, PP.[/quote]

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