tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post2010263579749056621..comments2023-12-20T11:32:15.997-05:00Comments on Billevesées: The Haushofmeister’s Diary, Part 20: The Critic CritiquedWilliam V. Madisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18120331095634473021noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-60054549007202191182013-05-20T10:41:41.110-04:002013-05-20T10:41:41.110-04:00she also used to say, upon receiving a compliment ...<i>she also used to say, upon receiving a compliment backstage, “Thank you! That’s so nice to hear.” And that was it, period. Maybe there‘s a lesson in there.</i><br /><br />Yes, Bill. Listen to Mother Sills. Huge wisdom there. No need to cirque the cirques<br /><br />I would suggest you reread your earlier posts of wonder too . That's a least as true as your emotions now. In fact I would say more so.<br /> <br />What you are feeling now is the other side of the coin and part of the deal in a life of art. <br /><br />This is the life we have chosen.<br /><br />Another point is other's opinons do not matter to us really...only to the extent we perhaps agree with them. Then we get mad at others to defend oursleves from that etc...that's the issue. What is our own opinion. That's all that matters, at least emotionally<br /><br />and btw you looked amazing<br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-42235531765072717552013-05-19T13:53:29.120-04:002013-05-19T13:53:29.120-04:00At the moment I'm inclined to tell myself that...At the moment I'm inclined to tell myself that, if I <i>had</i> been able to perform the piece six times, then I <i>would</i> have mastered it entirely!<br /><br />And you make a good point: a performance <i>is</i> different for the audience and the performers. Very often I've found myself happily bobbing beside a singer after a show. I'm completely thrilled and she's still caught up in her own analysis of errors or room for improvement or disagreements with the conductor or stage director, and it's as if we experienced two completely different shows.William V. Madisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18120331095634473021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455126179375366490.post-66621376668035347252013-05-19T13:46:48.674-04:002013-05-19T13:46:48.674-04:00It's hard to remember that the experience of a...It's hard to remember that the experience of any artistic endeavor is far different for the audience than for the artist... and once you've put something out into the world, it no longer belongs exclusively to you.<br /><br />Many of my musician friends will obsessively lament performance "problems" -- such as notes they didn't hit quite right or tempos that varied when they should have been steady -- without having any idea how little those things matter in the calculus of enjoying a performance.<br /><br />That being said, if you can master anything in only six performances, that puts you miles ahead of almost everyone in the freaking world! :)Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13372496375739714441noreply@blogger.com