Reality Violin

March 6, 2008 at 7:19 PM

Wednesday night I got to watch one of my favorite reality show. Project Runway.
It is a lot like Dancing with the Stars except the contestants are given one or two days to create a masterpiece of thread and fabric on a certain theme. Dancing with the Stars contestants are movie or television personalities who are teamed up with a professional and they have to learn a classical dance such as a fox trot or samba in one week. Twenty four hours to conceive and execute a dress design and one week to learn all the moves and rhythms necessary to perform a dance. Hum--I wonder what it would be like if my violin teacher would be able to take Oprah Winfrey and get her to play the "Allegro Moderato from Sonata No.10 for Violin and Piano by Beethoven in say a week or so?--if the prize money was --well nothing unless he could get her to "out-play" the competition for 5 or 6 weeks. Then if the TV audience didn't vote him off and Oprah learned how to play this piece he would get $100,000 and a chance to start his own Music School. Yeah!
I think that it is a slap in the face to all the professionals who have studied their craft all these years to think that anyone can do this overnight.
It might be entertaining, inspirational and all in good fun with high network ratings and plenty of money for the networks but I am not sure that anyone can just sit down and play this instrument. Maybe the first three numbers in the Suzuki book---maybe--Any takers for "Stringing Along the Stars?"
Now I had better get back to work.

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