24-08-2026 00:32 via artsjournal.com

How Do You Get Good Anymore?

Good Morning,Classical music training still runs on a guru model — teacher as oracle, student as supplicant — and an argument in The New York Times says the deference is damaging the people it’s meant to turn into musicians. The useful question isn’t who behaved badly, it’s what should mastering your craft actually require you to hand over.One field over, the question is getting harder to answer. Young writers are finding that the small, unglamorous, paid assignment
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