“beneficial” humility. Beneficial to the artist, to the art form, to the audience.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t mean that Flagstad didn’t have a healthy sense of her own worth, but that she understood the enormity of the task of reaching perfection in such a role–its virtually inexhaustible potentials.<\/p>\n
It’s what we all need to do: aim at a point farther than where we’ve gotten. And let our ambition be directed where it belongs and toward the right things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“beneficial” humility. Beneficial to the artist, to the art form, to the audience. It doesn’t mean that Flagstad didn’t have a healthy sense of her own worth, but that she understood the enormity of the task of reaching perfection in … Continue reading