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