Henk van Tuijl wrote in response to Deryk Barker:
>> No, the performer performs and the listener takes what (s)he
>> can/wants to from the performance.
>
>Is this not an underestimation of what an artist does? And in a
>sense a degredation of a musical performance?
I don't think so. It's just a recognition that the artist has control
over the performance but not over the response of a particular listener.
I can identify with Henk's desire for some sense of "objective" musical
order and/or the ability of a great artist to "convince" an audience. In
the aggregate, I think this happens. However, it's still the case that if
out of an audience of 100 persons, only one does not find a performance
"poetic", nobody can prove that person wrong. It's art, not mathematics.
Don Satz
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