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Re: [microsound] Lemur!



In a message dated 11/02/2005 00:57:03 GMT Standard Time, npeters@xxxxxxxxxxx 
writes:

> Amazing and awe inspiring, as are many human feats, and worthy of
> respect. But virtuosity is a means to an end, enjoyable in itself, but
> not to be mistaken for art.
> 

  Indeed, I know several people who are wonderful players of instruments, the 
violin for example, who cannot play a note without a score in front of them. 
And cannot write anything at all......how are they artists? Sometimes we 
confuse art with craft ! ?





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