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Young people interested in music should be
made aware that the career of performing "star"
isn't the only one available to persons with a
musical education, says Dr. Damjana Bratuz, associate
professor of music at the University of Western
Ontario.
Dr. Bratuz, adjudicator in senior piano for
this year's Corner Brook Rotary Music Festival,
was guest speaker Thursday at a luncheon meeting
of the Corner Brook Rotary Club. She told the
Rotarians that there is in North America a tendency
to foster in young talent the ambition to be a
star, with the feeling that one is a failure if
one doesn't achieve stardom.
There are other careers which combine to provide
a structure of support for good performers, and
Canada badly needs educated musicians in these
careers, Dr. Bratuz said. The country doesn't
have musically-educated reviewers, producers,
concert agents, and curators, and it could use
these in providing employment for the many music
festival participants whom the community cannot
absorb as performers.
Another thing Canada needs is long-range planning
for the development of excellence in music, she
said.
Replying to objections she considered, to
the effect that Canada doesn't have the necessary
musical tradition and that it hasn't had the resources
yet to develop excellence in music, she said that
Japan has produced well-known musicians without
a long tradition, and that Canada has managed
to assemble the resources to develop excellence
in hockey, by discovering and training young talent.
And excellence in ballet has been developed the
same way, she said.
Development of that excellence can lead to
a number of careers that are "desirable,
fulfilling, vital," Dr. Bratuz said.
Western Star - City Page
Friday, March 18, 1983-page 5
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