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Q: Has anyone else noticed an innordinate amount of talented musicians around?
Big music fan, tenor sax player, surrounded by musicians all my life, and I have to say I have never come across so many talented musicians in my life as I have here. It may be because here I have always lived in apartment complexes where I can hear the goings on of so many people within a very small vicinity, but it seems that wherever i've lived i've been able to hear at least one very talented musician from my window. Never lived anywhere super fancy either, always pretty run-down places with plenty of rats, but as I write I can hear a woman singing western opera (Madame Butterfly, I think) and she is amazing. When I first heard her I thought it was a recording, but no, i've since heard her warm up with scales and such. Then there is a pianist (classical of course, you never hear ragtime) just across the way, and he/she plays beautifully. There's the obligatory Chinese flautist of course, and as much as I like to take the micky, he does play very well. Really, it has always surprised me. Just wish I could hear someone playing some dirty rock guitar, but all in good time I guess. So what of yourself? Are the musical sounds that drift to your window pleasing to the ear.........or is it Chinese opera and the ballad of the strangled cat?
Well, when so many of the Chinese youth have been turned into juke boxes/outboard motors (swimmers)/dancing machines from such an early age...whaddya expect?
What I look for, when witnessing the display of whatever talent, is is the person smiling and enjoying the effort? I see so many kids' shows where the little dumplings are singing/dancing their little hearts out - but their hearts are not into it...no smiles, no genuine enjoyment of what they're doing. Hell, I have a student who is a level 10 pianist (the highest, I guess?) who hates the piano and other students who love to play the piano at school but whose parents wouldn't let them take/continue lessons.
So, many Chinese can perform, but mechanically - not for any love of the art.
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Sadly there is a lot of truth in that, but then look at Lang Lang, that guy is clearly loving it on stage and from his biography it is clear he was pushed very hard to study as a child. Seems not an uncommon them in the development of prodigious talents. Just look at Michael Jackson and Motzart. What a pair of wierdos.
Come to my place, I play a dirty rock guitar. I never clean it, that wouldn't be metal!
I don't know if there are an inordinate number of talented musicians here, but they certainly seem to have their share.
Yes, I tried to convince them that the gain and overdrive knobs are a harmonious social good, but so far to no avail.
