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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Maybe even help create some new music or a musician improve their playing.
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?