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Walter Meyer wrote:
>>If a student plays a passage all alone in a forest, and his teacher isn't
>>there to hear it, has he still made a mistake?
And Noboru Inoue replied:
>Of course No. When he came back to school or home, some one point it if
>any. No music is in the forest. Music(score or play anyhow) and player
>and composer and audience and instrument and even mistake is created by
>society and tradition, in my word, nature or universe, as any other
>artificial things.
If this were true, then solitary music-making would be perfect playing --
which it clearly isn't. Ask the practicing instrumentalist, or the writer
who tries in solitude to fill the blank page.
Most people are self-critical in solitude: our mistakes can mortify even
there. Thankfully.
Bert Bailey
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