Louis Armstrong was criticized in his later years for not retiring because
it was thought he had lost his chops. When told of this Wynton Marsalis
responded with, "Nuance is the epitome of technique!"
Gary
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From: "Edward Martin" <e...@gamutstrings.com>
To: "Mayes" <ma...@rowan.edu>; "David Tayler" <vidan...@sbcglobal.net>;
"lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:13 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: players getting better--was Trench Fill
Joseph, you are not a bad player at all - I liked what I heard in
Cleveland. And, slower does NOT mean worse.
ed
At 02:04 PM 2/3/2009 -0500, Mayes wrote:
OK Guilty as charged! I play worse. I find that the older I get - the
faster
I was.
Joseph Mayes
On 2/3/09 1:55 PM, "David Tayler" <vidan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Players getting better:
> They are better at everything.
> One can of course argue that they are getting worse, or, even worse,
> staying exactly the same--those would seem to be the options--
> but I have watched the lute scene now for forty years, and we have
> come a long way, we play better, have better musical training, read
> continuo, have better instruments and techniques, understand
> style--not to say there is not room for improvement
> (warning--chart will follow)
> When I was playing in the late sixties, there were few or none
> continuo players, thumb under players, intruments were pretty bad.
> There were some VERY highly trained musicians, but only a very few.
> And so on.
> But every year, improvements. The improvements did not keep pace with
> recorder & keyboard--the recorder players really mastered original
> notation, artoculation, and ornamentation--but gradual, visible,
> audible improvements.
> Hey--who here plays worse, come on, fess up old timers!
> dt
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