Extempore

In the Classical music world, it is as if most musicians have forgotten how to talk -- or never learned. They can't communicate with easy ordinary extemporaneous speech. Can't express themselves in daily conversation.

Instead, only scripts -- the detailed record, the detailed notation, the traces of music. We are always reading, never speaking for ourselves. Never communicating just what's on our minds or in our hearts. We are mute, unless the right words just happen to come along, happen to be scripted. Unless an author(-ity) has said something we can be willing to mean.

Imagine a world where actors who worked from written scripts, couldn't break out of character, couldn't take a moment -- to go across the street and order coffee! What if they couldn't form the simple sentence? What if they could not make themselves plainly understood with simple, forgettable phrases spontaneously made?