white people are too good at making music, we need affirmative action in orchestras!
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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.
If you think every single note by every single musician in an orchestral performance can be played perfectly without any inadvertent deviations, then I KNOW you're not a real orchestral performer.
Striving for perfection and achieving it are two entirely different things. The level of skill sufficient to play the piece is not the same for all pieces. It is clearly more challenging to strive to perfectly play a piece with complex rhythms, changing time signatures, multiple key changes, and fast runs with difficult jumps than to strive to perfectly play the same easy notes over and over again.
It's simply ludicrous to assert that no piece is more challenging than any other. How else do you imagine we select certain pieces to present to beginners while reserving others for more advanced students?
You're arguing with the wrong person. I never claimed to be an orchestral performer.
I have no idea how you're attributing this idea to me
And nowhere did I state every single note by every single performer must be played perfectly. I think you're letting your vitriol get in the way of your reading comprehension.