Re: (TV) Matter of Taste / Wrong / Can't Dance / Non-Musician-Angle

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <p0602041cbcc82c4bf8b5@[10.0.2.2]>, Maurice Rickard
<maurice@mac.com> writes
>I don't necessarily see it as a badge of honor, but rather as something 
>that opens possibilities.  Does music "progress" only when people play 
>an increased number of notes per unit of time?  Of course not.  What I 
>appreciate are the *right* notes.  If there are only a few of them per 
>unit time, then someone with a particular artistic "vision" or 
>sensibility could possibly play those notes at the right time without 
>much technique.  Technique and mastery are certainly important for doing 
>some things--doing more difficult things, doing things more reliably, 
>doing them with authority--but I'll take vision over mastery, if I had 
>to choose one.  (And happily for us all, there are examples of people 
>with both.)


This is exactly what I would have said if I'd known what I was talking
about.
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