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<DIV><SPAN class=081143104-12052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Naw!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=081143104-12052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=081143104-12052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=081143104-12052006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Gerald.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
bards-bounces+jerryn=houston.rr.com@ansteorra.org
[mailto:bards-bounces+jerryn=houston.rr.com@ansteorra.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Darius<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:28 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Ansteorran Bardic list<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bards] Question on performance
judging forms<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Darius</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=reese_esther@yahoo.com
href="mailto:reese_esther@yahoo.com">Esther</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=bards@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:bards@ansteorra.org">Ansteorran Bardic list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bards] Question on
performance judging forms</DIV>
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<DIV>Comments to the point, and good, sharp points -- which beg the question,
"Who judges the Judges?"</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>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?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Heh. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Running the hell away now.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Esther<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>