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by Marina Panfilova
Really the best article it is! I am so glad that Mr. Michael Johbson wrote so openly and honestly about the things many of musicians are afraid to declare. But the price we pay for the silence is too high: going this way we might find 'the language of soul' (as classical music distined to be) turned into some kind of sophisticated tricks. Trying to meet the eyes of some mumbers of the jury of the competitions in Italy (Val Tidone, Barletta), in Germany (Ettlingen) I hoped to find there a glimpse of dissatisfaction with their work - but I failed; they simply hid thier eyes, So respectable musicians, experiensed, highly educated - why did not they look at me openly, bravely. Wasn't is because they saw in me the very audience they were deceiving by giving them mediocrity instead of real art, this very audience that need not sophisticated pattern on the surface, but contents unnder the perfectness of the form. Dear Mr. Johnson, the problem. as I see it, is very difficult, because we have no 'convincing proofs' and many 'profassionals' will hurry to declare that we have no right to judge. But do we have 'convinsing proofs that there is reason in our life? And aren/t we going to lose any hope of its existance if we afford losing sense in such divine sphere as Music is?
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by Marina Panfilova
Really the best article it is! I am so glad that Mr. Michael Johbson wrote so openly and honestly about the things many of musicians are afraid to declare. But the price we pay for the silence is too high: going this way we might find 'the language of soul' (as classical music distined to be) turned into some kind of sophisticated tricks. Trying to meet the eyes of some mumbers of the jury of the competitions in Italy (Val Tidone, Barletta), in Germany (Ettlingen) I hoped to find there a glimpse of dissatisfaction with their work - but I failed; they simply hid thier eyes, So respectable musicians, experiensed, highly educated - why did not they look at me openly, bravely. Wasn't is because they saw in me the very audience they were deceiving by giving them mediocrity instead of real art, this very audience that need not sophisticated pattern on the surface, but contents unnder the perfectness of the form. Dear Mr. Johnson, the problem. as I see it, is very difficult, because we have no 'convincing proofs' and many 'profassionals' will hurry to declare that we have no right to judge. But do we have 'convinsing proofs that there is reason in our life? And aren/t we going to lose any hope of its existance if we afford losing sense in such divine sphere as Music is?
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