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December 24, 2009
Getting a Performance
There's been several post about difficulties getting music played. For me any instrumental things I've written I've had to get people together and play with them to get a performance.John Zorn talks about it in this way;
"I'm not going to sit in some ivory tower and pass my scores down to the players." said Zorn, "I have to be there with them, and that's why I started playing saxophone, so that I could meet musicians. I still feel that I have to earn a player's trust before they can play my music. At the end of the day, I want players to say: this was fun - it was a lot of fucking work, and it's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it was worth the effort."
What's your experience?
Originally from Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Dec 24, 2009 at 09:49 PM