How to not get in the way of the audience. How to let the composer portray everything they intend to without adding any distractions.
How to express the composer ideas, whilst using minimal effort, and without getting in the way of the audience.
Composers > Performer > Audience.
Ideas > Minimal Effort > Audience.
I'm just glad i get to be in the audience sometimes.
An audience is critical when they feel as though the performer is getting in the way.
When a performer is struggling, the audience is still about to see through mistakes to what is the composers original intention.
There is nothing more frustrating that having to 'suspend disbelief' whilst listening to a musician.
An audience has no problem accepting and understanding great musical works, this comes naturally. The frustration and pressure comes from the experience of a performer getting in the way of this experience.
The perfect concert is one in which the performers are neutral and the audience is not distracted.
It seems, the greatest challenge for a musician is not technical skill, but the ability to offer less.
The ability to play a slow single singing note, smooth and peaceful is completely destroyed by an unexpected bump or groove by the performer.
What a classical music audience is looking for is conformity. This audience wants to be given the room to make up their own mind about the music. They want a blank canvas into which they are spill their dreams and be free.
The physical process of playing the violin is difficult. The difficulty is replicating a sculptured melody without chipping or dropping it along the way.
All this comes down to something quite comforting...
Performing is not about trying to draw blood from a stone. It's about letting the river run free.
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