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I stated that amateurism is more important than professionalism. Having thought about it, I'm not sure that's always the case.
However, both are preferable to dilettantism, which I'd like to discuss.
Is there anything more annoying than a dilettante? Perhaps a philistine.
A dilettante, according to Google, is, "A person who claims an area of interest, such as in the arts, without real commitment or knowledge."
A dilettante would be the person who tries to tell me that Bocelli is a great opera singer or that Liberace was the greatest pianist of the 20th century.
Both are/were accomplished performers and have/had enough money to make Solomon blush but they're not great artists in the same way that Caruso or Richter was.
Dilettantes are like kittens. They're fascinated by bright, shinny things and easily distracted. The problem is when they consider themselves to be lions.
It is possible to be a tolerable and even a delightful dilettante. There are people who are interested in classical music but don't lay claim to any hard and fast opinions.
These people like classical music but can't tell you who wrote the Eroica symphony and they don't act like they can. In all likelihood, they'd be delighted to learn that Beethoven wrote the Eroica symphony.
Pictured: Andrea Bocelli
I stated that amateurism is more important than professionalism. Having thought about it, I'm not sure that's always the case.
However, both are preferable to dilettantism, which I'd like to discuss.
Is there anything more annoying than a dilettante? Perhaps a philistine.
A dilettante, according to Google, is, "A person who claims an area of interest, such as in the arts, without real commitment or knowledge."
A dilettante would be the person who tries to tell me that Bocelli is a great opera singer or that Liberace was the greatest pianist of the 20th century.
Both are/were accomplished performers and have/had enough money to make Solomon blush but they're not great artists in the same way that Caruso or Richter was.
Dilettantes are like kittens. They're fascinated by bright, shinny things and easily distracted. The problem is when they consider themselves to be lions.
It is possible to be a tolerable and even a delightful dilettante. There are people who are interested in classical music but don't lay claim to any hard and fast opinions.
These people like classical music but can't tell you who wrote the Eroica symphony and they don't act like they can. In all likelihood, they'd be delighted to learn that Beethoven wrote the Eroica symphony.
Pictured: Andrea Bocelli