Holy cow! dt
At 11:18 AM 1/15/2010, you wrote: >Ed, Right after I came out with my Hurel album, I received a >private email from someone who regularly contributes to this >list. This was one of the first comments I got about the >project. In the rudest, most brusk manner, this person told me A) >What an awful job I had done with the repertoire B) How could I be >so thoughtless as to use synthetic strings? C) I was being >irresponsible to the repertoire and instrument by even presuming to >have such a wretched recording out there D) I should just hang it >all up right then. This was from someone who was definitely >informed about the lute, but constructive criticism it was >not. Who knows? Maybe the guy was totally right about all those >things, but he knew very well that I was a young guy and that this >was my first recording. I knew that the album wasn't perfect, but >felt that I had accomplished something just by doing >it. Fortunately, it hasn't brought me to too many tears. (I wrote >him back a message politely thanking him for his insights.) I >don't believe this individual would have ever had the guts to make >these statements in an educated public forum. I say again - for >those who don't want negative comments on their videos, disable the >comment feature on your account. (I believe so few do this because >they secretly crave the positive comments.) If you do keep the >comments, you have the option of deleting any you find offensive. >Chris --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Ed Durbrow <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> >wrote: > From: Ed Durbrow <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
