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 Well, actually not everything.
But I did learn this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09mccallsmith.htm
It appears there's an orchestra of people who are not very good at their instruments. They get together and play through music they like.
They call themselves the Really Terrible Orchestra.
Now, I doubt they're really terrible, but I don't doubt that they're not fantastic. And yet they sell out their concerts.
Perhaps people like coming to hear people perform music with great joy and perhaps too much reckless abandon. Whatever the reason, there's something funny and something encouraging about this.
It's funny because we like to laugh at people who are imperfect. Sarcasm at the expense of others is one of this decade's best selling flavors. And, to be fair, sucky music is funny.
But I don't think that's the primary reason. I think people are a bit fed up with the constant mad dash toward perfection and fame. Reality shows abound, and they're all about winning. And many are about art. But how can just one person possibly win at art? If you do it right, everyone wins!
Our ancestors all used to make music. Every night. Around a campfire, wherever they were (go back far enough and it was the same campfire).
And did they play instruments? Probably not. They sang.
That's right, everyone used to sing all the time. And was it great? Probably not, at least by a modern music critic's standards. It was probably more like a conversation than a perfectly delivered speech, which is what music too often is nowadays.
So, I'm hereby calling for the formation of a Really Terrible Chorus. Somewhere, somehow.
I don't care what you sing, I don't care when. I just care that you do it.
Make noise. A joyful noise. A barbaric yawp. Whatever.
Hopefully others will join you, and we'll be able to break the cycle of audience-performer and replace it with the original paradigm, which is this:
Everyone can sing, and if you like to, you should.
And anyone who tells you otherwise is really terrible.
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