竞赛可用来赛马,却并非衡量艺术家的方法,这是巴托克的经典名言,他的话也许不无道理。关于音乐竞赛的争论由来已久,几乎已和现代竞赛的历史一样长。用田径运动的标准来评判音乐表演,还有什么比这更复杂、更微妙的吗?而当真的这样尝试时,我们的尺度又是什么呢?纽约大都会艺术博 Contest can be used for horse racing, but not a measure of the artist’s approach, which is Bartok’s classic saying, his words may not unreasonable. The controversy over music competitions has been around for a long time, almost as long as the history of modern competitions. What’s more complex and subtle than judging the performance of music by the standard of track and field? And when it is really trying, what is our yardstick? New York Metropolitan Museum of Art