Ignorant
by joe
Your article is full of ignorance. In 100% of international music competitions, the judges are required to abstain from voting for their own students. Asian musicians are taking over the western classical music scene. Thank God they are. Asians in China, Japan and Korea appreciate good music and their governments and public are going all out to promote it. Look at our own educational system here. Funding cuts in school music classes. Funding cuts in just about all cultural organizations. The commercial promotion of pop music has just about degraded our good music culture entirely. As far as those sour grapes who say Asian musicians are only good technically, just take a good look at all the major orchestras in the world and talk to the music directors and they can tell you why they hire so many Asian musicians. Because they are good, that's why. As far as that Chinese teenager who won the gold medal in this year's Van Cliburn Competition, I can tell you that he is darn good both technically and musically and he deserved the gold medal hands down. Ask any professional pianist who listened to him in person and on the web, he or she will tell you the same.
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by joe
Your article is full of ignorance. In 100% of international music competitions, the judges are required to abstain from voting for their own students. Asian musicians are taking over the western classical music scene. Thank God they are. Asians in China, Japan and Korea appreciate good music and their governments and public are going all out to promote it. Look at our own educational system here. Funding cuts in school music classes. Funding cuts in just about all cultural organizations. The commercial promotion of pop music has just about degraded our good music culture entirely. As far as those sour grapes who say Asian musicians are only good technically, just take a good look at all the major orchestras in the world and talk to the music directors and they can tell you why they hire so many Asian musicians. Because they are good, that's why. As far as that Chinese teenager who won the gold medal in this year's Van Cliburn Competition, I can tell you that he is darn good both technically and musically and he deserved the gold medal hands down. Ask any professional pianist who listened to him in person and on the web, he or she will tell you the same.
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