The truth is, the requirements for an artistic
accompanist, or for artistic concerted work, are the same as for an
artistic soloist: well directed musical aptitude, love of art, an ear
attuned to listening and large experience in sight-reading.
The music pupils' public recital contributes no little to the blunders
of the day in music study. Especially with piano pupils, the work of the
year is likely to be shaped with reference to the supreme occasion when
results attained may be exhibited in the presence of assembled parents
and friends. The popular demand being for the mastery of technique,
showy pieces are prepared whose mechanism so claims the attention that
the principles underlying both technics and interpretation are
neglected. Well-controlled hands, fingers, wrists and arms, with
excellent manipulation of the keyboard, may be admired at the recital,
but little of that effective playing is heard which finds its way to the
hearer's heart. A dead monotony will too often recall the letter that
killeth because devoid of the spirit that giveth life.
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