an inadequate (emotional) feeling for the music,” but “a first-rate mind and ear can achieve very little if the technique needed to express what is in that mind and ear is deficient” ( Schuller, 1997, p. Maestro Gunther Schuller applies a similar philosophy to conducting in his text The Compleat Conductor, stating that “all the physical, choreographic skills in the world will amount to nothing if they represent. It is important to note that within Walter’s statements on the necessity of technical perfection, technique is always in service to “musical interpretation that bears witness to the spirit and soul of a work” (p. The saying “Mens sana in corpore sano” can be applied figuratively to music-making the absolute correctness of the performance stands for the healthy body from which the soul of the work, unencumbered by physical imperfections, can roundly and clearly sound forth.
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