[Dixielandjazz] What they teach in college these days...

[Robert S. Ringwald]

Gunter was doing OK here until the following:

 > I see music as a discipline and until one masters the basics then one is 
not
> a "musician."



I agree.


>
> When people (especially young enthusiastic music wannabees) decide that, 
> with no musical training, they can compose sounds into profound and 
> evocative patterns (which I usually interpret as 'noise') and then call it 
> "music" and claim they are "expanding the envelope" in the realm of music 
> . . . that's when I get the giggles and tend to look at such activities 
> with amusement rather than serious consideration.



OK so far.


>
> Music must speak to the heart, it must speak to awe, and it must speak to 
> God.



Oops there.  "Music must speak to God???"

--Bob Ringwald
Placerville, CA USA

>
> You may present the most intricate chart of organized sounds . . . diagram 
> it on a chalk board . . . display the clever and complicated connections 
> between various pitches, phrases and aural qualities, but if it doesn't 
> speak to the heart, to awe and to God it ain't worth squat!
>
> Problem with a lot of young people is that they skip step one.
>
> In music, step one is becoming a musician. Step two is composing and step 
> three is performing.
>
> If you skip step one and go directly to steps two and three you can forget 
> step four.
>
> Step four is transporting your listener. If you don't move an audience 
> what have you created?
>
> Answer me that.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Bill Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
>
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