A Brief Follow-up to "Yes, There is Right Way"

Thank you, Maestro Muti!

You may have read my essay:

in which I discussed the liberties hacks take with the arts, who espouse the ludicrous notion that any method of expressive delivery is as “valid” as any other.

I have since discovered this video of an interview with Riccardo Muti. Yes, there is a “right way” and a wrong, Maestro Muti avers. An operatic singer’s expressive technique in delivering Verdi's early work is a case in point. Maestro Muti says that if you “feel” it the wrong way: GET LOST!

Furthermore, he states, unequivocally, that is up to us (in the case of Verdi, Italians) to protect, encourage and further the right way. Bravo, Maestro!

This is precisely what for a century in the West those in the arts — poetry, painting, music, sculpture, theater, etc. — have failed miserably to accomplish with their lackadaisical nonchalance — they have not, except in rare exceptions, upheld the standards set by the greats, intrinsic to and creative of that which is really Art and not dross passed off as the genuine article.

Revival is essential. God help us plant the seeds so the next generation might grow and achieve a Renaissance of the arts we have lost utterly.