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Subject: Re: How many people here play musical instruments?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:13:53 10/28/00

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On October 28, 2000 at 20:58:01, Mike S. wrote:

>On October 28, 2000 at 20:46:32, leonid wrote:
>
>>(...) Effort for being the best in chess game
>>come from natural desire to be prominent in the society. Music is other way to
>>go where you wish to be.
>
>I don't think a desire to be prominent matters much, if at all, for chessplayers
>or musicians. The enthusiasm must come from the thing itself; what else comes
>with success, is a bonus.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

Leonids statement is very interesting.
M.Scheidl is certainly right, though, but the effort necesary to excel, can be a
different matter, I think. There's a lot of hard work, and not all of it is very
creative all the time.
  Playing the radio!? The very controversial composer John Cage wrote a symphony
(or something) for 16 radios!!! (unfortunately, during a performance, some of
them went off the air!!!) [worse than Piccaso!].
S.Taylor



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