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“The word ‘amateur’–from the Latin ‘amator’ or lover–means to create for the sheer love of it. It is only recently that the word ‘amateur’ became a dirty one. Until the 1980′s, just about every educated person no matter what his or her profession played an instrument, or painted, or wrote for pleasure. The aim of these hobbies wasn’t necessarily to become the next Beethoven but to deepen the sensibilities of the individual doing them.” Shelley Berc, excerpt from ‘The Gift of the Amateur’
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:38:12 +0000

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