white people are too good at making music, we need affirmative action in orchestras!
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“The vast majority of performers.... simple parts that aren’t challenging at all.”
Lol. You have no idea what you are talking about. Only people who cannot play music would ever say something that stupid. Every piece of music is challenging if you are paying attention. The quest for perfection is the drive and frustration for all of us orchestral musicians.
Only a person who's not very good at any instrument would say "every piece is challenging". Obviously you've never seen a French Horn score that's literally just the same pitch whole note for the entire song.
If you don't know that some passages are more difficult to perform well then others, you haven't spent very long learning your instrument.
I would counter that "Only a person who has no depth in their musical skill..." would not recognize that it's probably more difficult to play a same pitch whole note through an entire song... and maintain the pitch and consistency perfectly
You can't hide your playing if you only have one note
I suppose it depends on what your goals are. If you want to sound like a computer playing back a midi because you think that's what's impressive, then sure. It's still not as though you're sitting in the middle of the stage by yourself, so yes you very much can hide your playing. Heck, you could drop out a few measures and most of the audience wouldn't even notice.
If your goal is to impart emotional content to the audience though, then you'll recognize that it's the deliberate deviations from the piece as written through which the musician bares their soul. Otherwise, we'd have no need for live musicians and directors at all.
Regardless, if you think any clarinetist who could perform Putty Boy Strut as well as Anat Cohen couldn't also hang with Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, then your opinions on music probably have less to do with art than with a pompous desire to think of yourself as better than other people.
In your own words:
Which is exactly my point. If you don't have sufficient control over your instrument to avoid inadvertent deviations from the piece, then your deliberate deviations are lost in the slop.
Lol. You called it a song. Fail.
Playing one single note on the French horn IS difficult. Playing that note beautifully, in tune, in time, correct volume, correct timbre, etc. without fatigue and perfect each time is what separates those who can from those who cannot.
Of course some pieces are more difficult but that doesn’t mean that you can take a mental vacation on some pieces.
Ah, I found the horn player. You tell yourself whatever you need to to believe you're just as important as the trumpets.
Lol. I do not play horn.