Me: "... knowing that most of them are skilled and knowledgeable musicians and musicologists in their own right, ..."
Oh, I don't know - I've known some brilliant musicians who were also excellent musicologists (my teacher at Huddersfield, Harold Truscott, for one: he was a superb pianist, and also had one of the most encyclopaedic and incisive musical minds which I've ever encountered (his book on the Beethoven string quartets is still an acknowledged authority.))
Thinking about it, I suppose that any musician worth their salt also needs to be a musicologist - to give a really good performance, a musician needs to understand the music he or she is playing.
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Thinking about it, I suppose that any musician worth their salt also needs to be a musicologist - to give a really good performance, a musician needs to understand the music he or she is playing.
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