Nashville songs are generally the synthetic product of a team of players, songwriters, producers and performers, rather than the work of an individual who both performs and writes a song.
It's impossible to know, but one suspects that many in the crowd may have spent their ticket money —from $52 to $1,502 — on the performers rather than the cause.
In contrast to most action cinema, the frenzy arises from the performers rather than the editing; no matter how frenzied things get, we never lose sight of who is karate-chopping the windpipe of whom.
In order to fill it they have poached top acts such as Jimeoin, Jenny Eclair, Craig Hill and the Tiger Lillies from other venues, with promises of 65% of takings going to performers rather than the 40% offered by most venues.
You can project your own fantasies onto the performer, rather than have to deal with the real person, which is always slightly awkward".
These failures are consistent with a long history of failed programs built around stars, when networks commissioned the shows based on the appeal of the lead performer rather than on an original concept.
It's like directing a movie, except that you're working for the performer rather than vice versa.
Schwann Artist, an annual version of Schwann Opus with the listings sorted by performer rather than composer, sold about 21,000 copies, and Schwann Spectrum, the quarterly pop catalog, sold 21,000 copies.
From the pop side the path is barricaded by, among other things, pop's preferences for (the illusion of) a natural performer rather than an elite conservatory-trained virtuoso, and for believability over sheer technique.
