Deryk Barker wrote:

>Kevin Sutton ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>>Where have YOU been Andrys.  There is no evidence to say that MOST
>>successful conductors have perfect pitch.  Many do not.
>
>Including some of the very greatest of all.
>. . .
>OTOH the great Jascha Horenstein did have perfect pitch and once remarked
>that he couldn't bear to listen to Furtwaengler's 1944 Eroica, in his (and
>IMHO) the greatest performance on record, because it was not available ina
>transfer at the proper pitch.

Actually, I was responding to the strange idea that perfect pitch hinders;
it can, if that's all one is focused one on, just as non-perfect pitch can
hinder if one wants to hear the notes quickly in more absolute terms.  I
named several modern-day composers listed by one of them on a forum, and
that was just a quick list off the top of his head.  Obviously, with the
major ones I named, most of whom are U.S.  conductors, PP was not a
problem.  Nor did they use this facility only to give a pitch to a chorus.

And to the idea that it is good for only one thing, I listed other, more
useful things one can do with it.

- A
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