In an attempt to be inquisitive, it appears that in my last blog (now deleted) I unintentionally came across as disrespectful and uneducated. Of course, this was not my intention, and I plan to approach my future endeavors with positivity and understanding, as it has always been my goal to progress and unite the marimba community.
I appreciate you reading my posts and welcome your continued feedback.
3 comments:
Chris: I appreciate both posts today. It is so important that we unite together, lay petty differences aside, to further our instrument. You had experienced something specific and were simply sharing your experience with your community. There is no harm in that for sure. I've heard about that bias, and can certainly understand the reason it exists. I think those 'biases" result more from personality conflicts than anything else. As I've said on my blog, I hope we can be a generation that puts those differences aside, putting our efforts to support endeavors that bring the marimba forward. Our art deserves that from us! The previous generation of marimbists have given us a newly reborn instrument the least we can do is help develop it for the gernation that follows us. Nancy Zeltsman demonstrated this so well when she invited Gordon and I to be a part of ZMF 2009. I GREATLY admire her including me in that amazing project. A great example of how we can work together. Thanks Chris for your work and I look forward to future posts.
Chris: I can appreciate your decision to take down the blog post, but I think there is a lot of good information and feedback in that post from the commenters. It would be a shame to lose those debates. I hope you reconsider and repost the topic. I think we got a lot of good feedback on your blog post and the discussion continued when Tom put it on FB. There are always going to be negative remarks, but in this case, I think the positive out weighed the negative and I would hope you would reconsider deleting that post.
I had hoped that the personality driven "marimba wars" would just age out and that younger players would take what resonated with them from each of the older generation and focus on their own music.
The truth is that the path of an artist involves finding your own musical voice and then developing your own musical sensibility, performance and interaction with audiences.
This is not something that can be copied from someone else or determined by someone else.
At the end of the day, each of us is alone, developing our own art. As musicians who are all in that same position, we should be rejoicing in the diversity of our world and honoring, appreciating, and respecting every single person who feels called to be an artist.
Namaste
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