Not so. In fact, the opposite is true.
It is in the pro music ranks that you have to put up with incompetence &
tyranny from the podium, because quitting under those circumstances means
giving up your paycheck.
While the tyranical incompetent waving the stick warns you not to let the
door smack you in the rump on your way out, a boatload of highly qualified
conservatory graduates line up clear around the block waiting for their
turn at the auditions held to pick your replacement.
The amateurs & dilettantes, however, being economically independent of
their positions in the ensemble, can just up & quit any time there's a
tyrannical incompetent up front -- or any other kind of incompetent up
there, or any other kind of tyrant for that matter.
The amateurs & dilettantes sit there & play the tunes (& count the
measures) because they want to, not because they've got to -- the best of
both worlds, no?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I can imagine, how the many good hobby-musicians suffer under more or less
tyrranic but incompetent "rulers".
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