[NewMusic] Getting liberated

[Tim DuRoche]

Jon, 
  thanks for some very honest perspective (that I wholeheartedly agree with). While I didn't raise our three children from birth (instead coming into parenting as a "step" daddy-o/drummer), I'll tell you that both improvisation and parenting force a level of honesty and commitment to your "craft" that is unparalleled. Buying into the "career-over" gambit is as tired as being a sucker for the starving-artist/suffering for your art path. 
   
  While some folks may not be able to tour as much (or even spend the unregulated hours on music) it doesn't deter the urgency of your art (look at someone like Mr. Robair), rather it crystallizes. It's no longer all-over painting, it's a Barney Newman zip--focused, fierce, and just as beautifully befuddling. Moreover it encourages you to continually assess and reassess what battles are worth fighting for. (on the flipside, with great nurturing/education, it also breeds a new deeply appreciative audience for left-handed forms of human endeavor like contemporary art or jazz and improvised music)
   
  And remember, Woody ended up marrying his step-daughter, so let's all avoid taking advice from anyone who  entertains topsy-turvy, who's-your-Freudian-daddy notions.
  TdR

Jon Raskin <sopranino at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Don't buy the family is death to the artist, never have. Is it easy to
have a relationship with someone and keep being creative when it doesn't
bring money or survive the strains of being seperated by travel or a host of
other things that arise. No, but you could choose several other professions
and come up with an equaling difficult list to overcome. There isn't a one
to one correspondance of a good relationship to being an artist. 

Holding your new born child- life altering common miracle.
Raising a child- makes trying to be an artist seem easy.

Life is for jumping into & art is way to make sense of it and helps make it
bearable and meaningful.

As for Woody Allen, his art is about family by in large.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu
[mailto:newmusic-bounces at music.mills.edu] On Behalf Of David Slusser
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 3:05 PM
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] Getting liberated

On Jan 6, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Polly Moller wrote:
> So there you go; child arrives, and career is over.

John Malkovitch in Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog: "family is death to the
artist".

Any other parents out there on the list (Raskin, Eli)?
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