Gidon Kremer: why I quit the celebrity ratrace

[playspianogently]

...but a time has now come in which the overall devaluation of the word “interpreter”
 has resulted in a misguided fixation with glamour and sex appeal...

https://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/07/gidon-kremer-why-i-quit-the-celebrity-ratrace.html


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[ramseytheii]

So Gidon Kremer quit because his career was based on sex appeal marketing?  Honestly I never saw those sexy pictures of Gidon Kremer, but they must be out there somewhere.

I don't think this letter is actually that coherent.  To top it off, he ends with the first words of Heine's "Ich grolle nicht," or, "I don't bear a grudge," but of course this poem and the song Schumann wrote for it are both masteries of irony: "I don't bear a grudge... I saw you in my dream! I saw the night in your heart, I saw the snake eating your heart, I saw how miserable you are.. but don't worry, I don't bear a grudge."

If he's trying to be nice about it, bad choice of poem!

Walter Ramsey

[pianowolfi]

Good point Walter.
Also a good point makes Lera Auerbach:

https://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/07/verbier-latest-composer-appeals-to-defecting-kremer.html

But nevertheless, Gidon Kremer himself makes a good point as well. There are often many good points of view and not only one good and one bad point.

I don't think the OP makes really a good point though, as it seems to me that he is only interested in advertising himself, more or less directly.