Paul Cantrell
@OctaviaConAmore @helplessduck @Gaolaitch This musician agrees. You can’t always meet people where they’re at, but you do have to reach toward them. Much the same with teaching as well.
I’m also a big defender of making music for one’s own self, and not feeling like it doesn’t matter or doesn’t count because it’s a private pursuit, a secret garden. Meeting people where they’re at includes one’s self.
Paul Cantrell
@Gaolaitch @OctaviaConAmore @helplessduck I don’t know what your background is, but I steered waaaay the hell away from doing any sort of graduate work in the classical performance world for exactly this reason.
Jody Hughes
@inthehands @OctaviaConAmore @helplessduck I have serious amounts of baggage in this area. My training toxified the idea of audience by demanding that I aim for perfection, and so imagine the listener as a critic with the perfect ear who will know if I fall short of perfect. I’ve spent many years trying to disempower my hyper-criticism; it’s only lately that I find I can play to a real audience, whose opinions I believe and trust. Rather than failing at the impossible, again.
Imagining a real human being as my ideal audience sort of crowds out the hyper-critical one, I find. Or at least gives me an alternative to play to. Little steps.
Paul Cantrell
@Gaolaitch @OctaviaConAmore @helplessduck So sorry you went through that ordeal!
Cello is wonderful. Piano’s my thing, but I were going to seriously learn a second instrument, cello would be it.
Jody Hughes
@inthehands @OctaviaConAmore @helplessduck I wish I had! BMus (cello performance) MMus (cello/conducting). They tried to tempt me to a PhD but I finally saw sense.
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