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by Michael Hovnanian
About Me
- Michael Hovnanian
- Central Time Zone, USA
- double bassist
My evolution from beginner to sophisticated professional.
- 1) wanting to hear myself play
- 2) wanting others to hear me play
- 3) wanting to be paid to play
- 4) wanting to be paid not to play
6 comments:
You are so lucky.
Oh, I presumed that milestone ("the good old days") had already happened.
? wha ?
The milestone is the flip-flop, the moment when those for whom dissatisfaction constitutes a way of life realize the object of their disaffection has receded too far into the past and seek to replace it with something more immediate.
A friend of ours, a retiree from the St. Louis Symphony, said that when Muti was just getting his start, they used to refer to him as Ritard-o Muti, because he took everything so slowly.
I doubt I will EVER look back on the 15-year tenure of our previous Music Director as "the good-old days". In my mind, that'd be kinda like DSCH rememebring Stalin as a kindly ol' grampa.
Let's wait a decade and see...
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