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Riffing off Toots comment, I've been panmusical my entire career, 60 years and still going strong! To wit, I, a Hungarian-American, am classically trained in the European tradition, have played in symphony orchestras, concert bands, jazz ensembles, rock groups, pit orchestras, and chamber ensembles. I studied and performed raga music with Indians and Pakistanis. I studied and performed Gamelan music with Javanese teachers. It's important to note this point, germane to Don's article: My Indian, Pakistani, and Javanese teachers/fellow musicians all welcomed me with open arms and, if I do say so myself, expressed joy that I was learning their traditional musics and pride that I was doing well performing them. And I look back on my panmusical career with pride and joy as well.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by Don Baton

Lol! I said to myself, “Hell, I’ve been bi-musical my entire career!” Who hasn’t been? Woo-Hoo! What irritates me is that grant monies were no doubt provided for this “enlightening” revelation. Grant monies that could have been used for a much more deserving and necessary project.

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Music is music, it influences and is influenced by every note that is heard. Was there somewhere a zero note from which all others have descended? How is it that the "music police". my term, can be so tone deaf?

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