{"id":407,"date":"2010-06-28T06:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T06:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp\/2010\/06\/casualties\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:09:43","slug":"casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/2010\/06\/casualties.html","title":{"rendered":"Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What leads to professional success as a musician?<\/p>\n<p>Talent matters. The ability to hear and feel and think. Digital dexterity. Work. Perhaps luck, or chance, or random events play their parts in many careers. And there are other elements of &#8220;talent.&#8221; Some artists interest us. The sounds they make compel. We want them around, we want them to be part of our life.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many young musicians of real ability and achievement who do not make commercially successful musical careers. What happens? Are there just too many of them? Do they lack perseverance? Do they lack what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Seldes\">Marian Seldes<\/a> described as the performer&#8217;s necessary capacity to absorb disappointment?<\/p>\n<p>Certainly I recollect many pianists who impressed me tremendously in their teens and twenties who have now disappeared from view. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 17px 1px 13px 13px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/FrankAJ.jpg\" alt=\"FrankAJ.jpg\" width=\"365\" height=\"248\" \/>I&#8217;m thinking of musicians of very high order. It can seem sad, arbitrary, or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A manager or teacher may have prescience about who can make it. Often, I believe we are too careful. We may just be encouraging those who are most like us. Can it be we are trying to perpetuate our musical world, with all its limitations?<\/p>\n<p>A real success would be the youngster who can blow the lid right off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What leads to professional success as a musician? Talent matters. The ability to hear and feel and think. Digital dexterity. Work. Perhaps luck, or chance, or random events play their parts in many careers. And there are other elements of &#8220;talent.&#8221; Some artists interest us. The sounds they make compel. We want them around, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,158,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-musical-career","9":"tag-musical-talent","10":"tag-professional-success","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/pianomorphosis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}