Good thread, Rex!

Just a thought about Peter's comments. Why is it that music is becoming more and more an event? What I mean is that there seems to be more and more space developing between the musician and the audience, to the detriment of both.. I may have once thought that the essential music experience was gained by either playing music in a large room to a crowd of listeners, or by becoming one of those listeners. I now think that that basic experience, the one yielding the greatest joy and satisfaction, is the intimate one born out of sharing.The one that glorifies a common impulse of love of one another and of the music, and not the posturings of the ego. Maybe that is why, as I mature, I find myself drawn back to acoustic and traditional music; music that has little to do with idolatry, and much to do with friendship. Music that breaks down the barriers between performer and audience.