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JMDL Digest           Monday, May 5 2014           Volume 2014 : Number 655



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  RE: CMIARS a masterwork?           ["Susan E. McNamara" <sem8@cornell.edu>]

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Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 21:27:48 +0000
From: "Susan E. McNamara" <sem8@cornell.edu>
Subject: RE: CMIARS a masterwork?

As an eager student of Joni's guitar style I have to request that Turbulent Indigo be considered a masterwork by this lofty group (or the ages)!  Just my two cents! :-)  I find it to be the apex of her exquisite acoustic guitar craft.

Susan Tierney McNamara
email:  sem8@cornell.edu

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From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Bob.Muller@Fluor.com
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 9:31 AM
To: djp@davidjphillips.org
Cc: Jamie Zubairi Home; Joni JMDL; ingrid lochrenberg
Subject: Re: CMIARS a masterwork?

<Just to be pedantic, isn't (or wasn't) a masterwork the single piece that proved one was no longer an apprentice (and, in another system of craft production, could set up shop on one's own, and take on apprentices)?>

That's a good point, David and it is indeed ONE definition of the word. 
Using that definition you could successfully contend that STAS was a masterwork; that is it proved that she could hold her own with her fellow artists of the times.

By the same token, the other definition (and connotation) is the finest or most outstanding work of a specific artist. Which takes us to Betsy's description whereas Blue and Hejira (and Court and Spark) would fall into that category.

Neither definition supports CMIARS as a masterwork. Doesn't mean you shouldn't like it or even say that it's your favorite though.

Bob

NP: Roadkill Ghost Choir, "Beggar's Guild" 
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