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Subject: Re: TEST PIECE RECORDINGS
From: "Judith Hayes" <judith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 16:16:10 +0100

David Lancaster wrote

"...I believe that we should make use of all available sources to assist our
learning."

Much as it pains me to admit it ;-) I agree. Think where we would be if we
didn't do this in other areas of life... I would be grubbing around outside
working out which plants were edible and which deadly (with the consequences
of a wrong guess more severe than even the nastiest adjudicator's comments!)
and, more to the point, I wouldn't still be sing the internet for
research reports a week before my assignment deadline, because I could have
written 7500 words on anything I liked and no-one could tell me it was
wrong...

But seriously, not everyone is talented or skilled enough to read a stunning
performance every time "just" off a score. Some of us mere mortals find it
useful to learn from others' interpretations of pieces. I once had to go and
buy a CD with Berlioz' Hungarian March on, because how we were murdering it
in rehearsal just made no sense to me. I take Mr Grice's point about
developing the skill, but this may be one way of doing it.

Anyway, emailing the list is clearly a displacement activity, must go
Jud
PS anyone want to buy a CD of "Famous Marches" - used once only...


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