[HANASHIR:16650] Re: "Quality" and the teachings of Danny Maseng

[Jacqueline Guttman <jguttman...>]

For the record (since this discussion had to do with discerning "quality",
my dear friend Joe Boonin is an eminent musicologist -- on the board of the
Music Library Assn., in fact. For many years he owned a major music
distribution house that sent music to all the major orchestras throughout
the world. Just prior to his retirement, he held a position at the Library
and Museum of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, In NYC. He is one of
those people who can hear 3 notes of a major work of symphonic music and
tell you not only what it is, but who the orchestra and conductor are and
when and where it was recorded. In short, this guy has ears we can all envy.
He knows whereof he speaks. (Then again, we're all moved to tears by our
grandchildren.)   :-)

Jackie Guttman


> From: Ros Schwartz <ros (at) hn(dot)dancinginthewind(dot)ca>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 04:50:33 -0500
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:16534] Re: "Quality" and the teachings of Danny Maseng
> 
...
> 
> Yet Joseph Boonin has just written about how he and his wife were moved
> to tears by hearing their 2 1/2 year old grandson singing
> barely-recognisable melodies in the bathtub ... to quote his letter
> (Hanashir #16533):
> 
> "Frankly, I was touched to a degree I wouldn't have thought possible to
> hear him in his bath singing "Shalom Chaverim" and "S'vivon." It took a
> bit of creative listening to discern the familiar words and melodies.
> When my wife and I realized what was coming from his little voice we
> were close to tears."
> 
> As I said in my earlier letter, the degree of "quality" required depends
> on the context and the purpose.  Danny Maseng (as described in Sbirona's
> letter) was preparing a show to which he was asking many large audiences
> to pay money to see.  This had better be top quality, to fulfill his
> side of the contract.  Joseph Boonin was touched precisely because his
> grandson's music was elemental and unformed ... and let him see the
> potential that resided within.
> 

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