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A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a }RF(CwZr(  
work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great +
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responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and =IZT(8  
as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most @?sRj&w  
training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an #^0R&) T
 
athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be CO/]wS  
inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left ^dWa;m]l  
hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different LBeF&sb6  
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Singers and instruments have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this xK[ou'  
particular anxiety, for the notes are already there, waiting for them, and it is the piano tuner’s c^xIm'eob  
responsibility to tune the instrument for them. But they have their own difficulties; the hammers that 6_o*y8s.  
hit the string have to be coaxed not to sound like percussion, and each overlapping tone has to sound ,_ H: J.ik  
clear. ^L nTOdAE  
This problem of getting clear texture is one that confronts student conductors: they have to learn to Vr)S{k-Q  
know every note of the music and how it should sound, and they have to aim at controlling these KAJi  
sound with fanatical but selfless authority. e(&v"}Ef`  
Technique is of no use unless it is combined with musical knowledge and understanding. Great artists +.PxzL3?  
are those who are so thoroughly at home in the language of music that they can enjoy performing n+9=1Oo"  
works written in any century. C3f' {}