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I admit I'm going off at a tangent here but still think the following is relevant to anybody playing music of any kind.
I was recently invited to a concert of Flamenco music and dancing in an enormous pop-music-type venue. Knowing the leader of the troupe for over thirty years, I took as a precaution a pair of earplugs. (I dislike the music intensely but sometimes needs must be out of politeness!)
Everything - the singers and the instruments were painfully loud even with the earplugs and in the interval I left. My ears took days to recover from the torture. To make matters worse, they performed a version of (please not again!) Carmen! Nothing is further from Flamenco than that kitsch!
(Such a pity too- all the performers had obviously put in a lot of practice).
A week later I was at a very nice performance of Mozart's Requiem - choir of 30-40, orchestra of maybe 20-30. The decibels were at a HUMAN level.
These experiences got me thinking about positioning oneself - on the market, if you're a professional musician, but also as an amateur. What do I want to achieve? What is my style? This excludes immediately Carmen and Flamenco - and so many who play the harpsichord as if it were a piano (more in the past than now?).
Thoughts?
Best
Ph.
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