Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.
If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.