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Q. You have spoken about the sound ideal for a piece and of the importance of projecting a musical interpretation and performance to that very high level. Would you clarify this?
A. In the mind's ear, one has an ideal of the perfect performance of a piece. You may have even heard this perfect performance, perhaps by a concert artist, on a recording or even in a wonderful interpretation by a student. This ideal is all encompassing, including tone, tempo, interpretation, inflection, finesse and, most of all, the piece is convincing in energy and emotion of that work. The sound ideal refers to the mental image of how a piece of music in an ideal form might sound in ...