What operational description of character is to be applied to the behavior of a musician? Is it one person behavior or interpersonal behavior with one other person, with his family, his parents, his music group, the larger community? The audience?
How does one measure the musician's character? Is it by conventional standards of morality? By the breaking of some or all laws? By his words? By his actions in the above situations? Does one reprehensible, rude, thoughtless, or immoral action brand him as having "poor" character? Or two? In which categories? How do we explain the fact that even pedophilia was an accepted activity in many cultures past, marrying fourteen year olds, taking on young male lovers in Greek culture...As previously noted, Asperger's syndrome makes some musicians difficult to tolerate in interpersonal interactions...Is this a character problem? No it is widely assumed to be a cerebullar disorder! What about people with interictal seizures from temporal lobe injuries? Is their behavior a "character" problem? I hope such threads are aimed at dialectical ends....