Great Expectations
In response to Beth Meyer’s post yesterday: “There was also Greg Mertl’s class on “Music and the Media” which focused on the role and identity of classical music in Hollywood and advertising and how we as classical musicians self-perpetuate the view that it is a higher art form, distancing ourselves from the lay-person. This class totally blew me away! Really, any class that offers you a forum for working through any of these issues or hearing the perspective from the outside world will be time well-spent…”
Was just reading some words on Nathan Milstein and he is quoted as saying that society needs “those people”, those people being “us”, and he was referring to composers, instrumentalists, poets, architects – artists that run the whole gamut.
This is why I feel that our role in the community, to represent our ensembles, is one that we simply carry out every day….would it not be wonderful for a board to offer “A Day With (fill in the blank of the titled chair)”, so that people could actually SEE a real day in the life of an orchestral member, complete with diaper changes and car accidents?
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