I'm curious - do you play an instrument yourself? Or do you play classical music? Because playing somebody else's music involved a very large amount more than just repeating what's written on the page. There are numerous decisions - musical decisions - which go into how you play it: will you decide to emphasise a particular mood within the music by using rubato, for instance? Will you use the sustain pedal if you're on the piano? Will you play with vibrato if you're playing on a violin or on a wind-instrument? What kind of tone do you want to use? Do you actually want to follow the composer's instructions regarding tempo and dynamics, or do you think the music would sound better if played differently? There's a reason why classical music snobs rhapsodise about one person's playing, and ignore another's. You could programme a robot to read a classical score; it takes a musician to interpret it.
I do play an insturment myself, and have played classical stuff. And I understand where you're coming from. Obviously orchestras are greater than just performers, because of their understanding of the
writing of music. I'm not saying a performer can't be a musician or vice versa (this is indeed what most bands worth anything are).
My point, that I made very badly, is that if all you ARE doing is reading notes on a page, that makes you a performer - not a musician.
Okay, I'm really gone from the thread.
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