[HANASHIR:16441] Re: Ah... the double-edged sword

[Adrian A. Durlester <adrian...>]

Fran wrote:
>But not all songwriters have to sing their own songs, not all singers have
to 
>write their own music, and not all music educators have to record a CD.

Agreed. But why have we lost our trust and faith in amcha to decide who
should and shouldn't be doing what? Quality, whatever that is, will out. And
we must accept that our individual and professional definitions of what
quality is, and what is best for amcha, may not be the same definitions that
amcha finally decides upon. That's the risk we take when we enter of life of
service to Judaism.  Why do we need a cabal of professionals deciding for
amcha what's best?

Do I, personally, think there's a lot of crap out there? Yes. Do I think
there are people writing songs and making recordings who probably shouldn't
be? Yes. I just don't think the solution is anything that has yet been
proposed here, with the possible exception of Beth's that we seek to train
as many as we can and raise the bar that way.

Still gadflying away,

-Adrian


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