Ian Belsey wrote:
> Mariella,
>
> Sorry, but to coin a phrase, you're speaking the
> nonsense now!!
>
> If you have a full time job, you are not a
> professional singer. You can't be like Marie
> Antoinette you know, cake and all. I'm not using that
> as a slight against professionalism, but that's the
> truth pure and simple. I don't talk nonsense you know.
> I have been a professional singer for 30 years, and
> not once have I done anything else to supplement my
> income. I must be lucky I guess!?
>
Hmm. A little to simple. I know a top professional classical pianist,
who has many recordings out, who has taken various hiatuses from
performing and has done things such as teaching instead. No one would
dare say that she wasn't a professional pianist even during her 5 year
absence from public performance. Likewise, my choir teacher used to be
the principal trumpet player in a local orchestra. He left to take a
full time church position and to go to seminary too. Yet he is still
asked to sub from time to time in local orchestras. Since he is
considered by local musicians as having professional-level skills, he is
still considered a professional musician, even though he has a day job.
Barbara Roberts
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