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Quotation of the day

From Gillian Gallagher, a violist who was

one of my Juilliard students this spring. Reprinted from her final

paper, with her permission:

We think of the general public as

being ignorant and unable to pay attention — we don’t give them enough credit.

The average American consumes a vast amount of entertainment (complex TV shows,

hours of music on their iPods, movies) a day — I feel fairly confident that

they will want to listen to and watch concerts if we present them in the ways

that they are already accustomed to consuming their entertainment.

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