[Bards] Question on performance judging forms

[Gerald Norris]

Naw!
 
When I'm judging I'm looking for solid entertainment value.  Can they, man
or woman or child, truly capture the audience.  A singer who can quiet the
halls, a musician who sets feet to tapping, the story teller with every eye
on them; that's what I look for.
 
As for the perfect performance?  It's live!  I expect flaws in performance,
and good performers will learn to use them.  It is part of what live
musicians have to struggle against; the plethora of canned music that has
been mixed, remixed, and polished.  As a former teacher once stated, "If you
can't be heard making a mistake, that usually means you can't be heard at
all."
 
Gerald.

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From: bards-bounces+jerryn=houston.rr.com at ansteorra.org
[mailto:bards-bounces+jerryn=houston.rr.com at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
Darius
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:28 PM
To: Ansteorran Bardic list
Subject: Re: [Bards] Question on performance judging forms


Ohhh one of my favorite questions  when the whole pitch and tone and
enunciation cards come intoo play is "what did this sound like in the period
it was/would havebeen written in?" In truth even the english spoken in
London is not how it was spoken in the days of Queen Bess. Now doesn't that
throw a wrench into your technical judging?
 
Darius

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Esther <mailto:reese_esther at yahoo.com>  
To: Ansteorran Bardic list <mailto:bards at ansteorra.org>  
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Bards] Question on performance judging forms

Comments to the point, and good, sharp points -- which beg the question,
"Who judges the Judges?"
 
I for one, can't tell you if someone was flat, off pitch, etc. I doubt an
Elizabethan expert could accurately judge, on its specific and cultural
terms, and Anglo-Saxon skald.
 
And how much documentation is a judge supposed to be able to read,
understand, and be able to tell if it's even good scholarship. BEcause there
is a LOT of bad scholarship out there -- what are the standards of that?
 
Heh. 
 
Running the hell away now.

Esther


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