An aqaintance once remarked that a certain piece of music did not present anything difficult for the musicians ~ I took "difficult" to mean, "nothing terrifying." What an unfriendly point of view !
You could say that about Bach's "Air on the G-String" ....shall we bin it?
What matters for a re-creative artist (a performer, not a composer who is the creative artist) is to lift the music off the page and launch it back into the atmosphere whence it came in the first place, before it was all written down. It's not about difficulties....
What is it about how high, how loud, how fast, how slow .....torn ligaments, bloody toe shoes, being so tired from rehearsals that you can't even eat your dinner .... alum in your stage drink giving you a tough time with your lines......what IS it?
A friend once said about a hair-do I liked, "Oh, that's not hard!" as if that totally devalued its beauty.
Not only must ve soffer for our aarrt, but for zee beauty, too? Ach
What is it about art vis-a-vis suffering that fascinates?
That sounds like some of the stuff I heard when I was in college getting a degree in music and elementary education. Now that I am out in the "Real World", nobody says stuff like that.
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