on 7/7/02 1:47 PM, s~Z at keithsz@concentric.net wrote:
If you don't think Ikue Mori has that, you're nuts.<<<
Interesting observations from one who puts the audience as final arbitrator in the assessment of the quality of art. Now 'who' is it that 'really has the goods?' Glenn Gould and Ikue Mori. And if the audience doesn't think so, the audience is nuts.
I by no means said those were the only two. But they are each very, very formidable, and to deny either of them that would be nuts, and I believe that without reservation. Secondly, with regard to Ikue, chose her as an example of someone whose musciality -- because of her instrument -- has not been given full credit, because how you play it involves techniques that are less apparent than those applied to a horn or piano. But I think the audience -- espec one that claims to be more enlightened than the audience for more popular music -- has the final say. has to. They're the body to whom the stuff is communicated. Without an audience, an artust is talking to a wall, Incidentally, out of that whole email, I'm surprised that this is own the only part with which you took issue. skip h