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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 10:42:02 GMT -5
In a court of law, officers of the court call expert witnesses to testify on technical and scientific matters, to give “expert opinions.” Interesting that both sides of a legal battle produce experts whose opinions differ from one another. How can that be when both sets of experts apply objective criteria?
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 10:42:41 GMT -5
Clearly, even experts sworn to tell the truth on the witness stand cannot be said to have unassailable objective opinions. Why? Because complex facts do not provide their own interpretation. One expert may apply one technique, the other expert a different one. One expert may have great experience that the other expert
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 10:55:07 GMT -5
It’s obvious that an expert has more knowledge than the average man or woman on the street. But who can say definitively that the expert’s taste is superior to that of someone else in her profession or, for that matter, to the taste of this or that non-expert?
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 10:56:03 GMT -5
Your average strip-mall voice teacher, one hopes, successfully conveys technique to her students. She may also aspire to convey an understanding of singing as an art, but we don’t expect that of her because high ability of that sort is given to few. Thus we expect more from the great voice teachers of the world; they convey technique, of course, superlatively so. But they do more, they find and nurture artists.
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 10:56:47 GMT -5
Great teachers of voice are themselves artists of a sort and they have the disposition and character of an artist. They have insight and sensitivity, they have vision and the drive to create. They build up rather than tear down. These are passionate men and women. They sympathize and identify with the artist and nurture her. Such teachers may be resented by their students when they drive them to achieve greater excellence, but we find from history that great teachers engender in their students fierce loyalty and
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:00:59 GMT -5
And what about the teacher as listener? Because she is a teacher of voice is she a more sensitive listener, one whose judgement is superior to yours or mine? There are those who teach art (be it literature, music, or the plastic arts) whose eyes and ears are no better than yours or mine. Their judgements are faulty. Their assessment of value is worthless.
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:02:10 GMT -5
As with any art, appreciation of great singing requires humility, the acceptance that the unexpected is possible, that someone could come along who, though untutored, might in her few years know more about art than the self-declared expert will appreciate in a lifetime. Amen ...
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:05:07 GMT -5
Inevitably as Jackie grows older she’ll take upon herself greater responsibility for her own career. She will rely upon her parents less. They will, more and more, fade into the background.
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:06:33 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:09:13 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:10:29 GMT -5
Don’t hold her up as a role model, they say. She might disappoint you. At some point, having grown sick of being called humble and polite, she might act out, just to prove us wrong.
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:16:58 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:18:34 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:19:39 GMT -5
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Post by Beachguy on Sept 8, 2019 11:24:40 GMT -5
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