So, does the best pianist truly exist? Best violinist? Best organist?🙋 etc. On what criteria is the best selected?
Last night, I made a Google search on who the best organist in the world is. The first link I clicked on had an interesting list of top 10 best organists.
- Funny enough, I saw Elton John as part of the list. I could have said it's deception since we all (or at least some of us) know Elton John is a pianist that cannot be compared to some of the great pianists like Lang Lang. Yet he was first on the list
- Stevie Wonder was also named. That made me laugh. Was he named one of the best because he is blind😎? If it is, then it is like naming a blind man the best walker just because he is blind and can walk. Moreover he was a pianist. NOT AN ORGANIST.
- Then the next was a fail of the year, where J. S. Bach was added to list. Seriously, I mean, how! This blogger should stop joking.🙅 J. S. Bach died about 300 years ago And to crown their ignorance, they added Robert Smith, a guitarist and producer of the Rock and Roll genre.
I clicked other links and I observed some of these silly inconsistencies. Trust me when I say, "THE BEST INSTRUMENTALIST DOESN'T EXIST".
I know of an organisation that held an awards ceremony for choirs, composers, etc and their criteria and methods of giving the awards happens to be the most inefficient, biased and unprofessional one. Imagine giving award for composition of the year based on popular votes and not on the scrutiny of professionals and music elites.
Fellow classical and choral music lovers, you can only find the best instrumentalist only when you have trod every corner of the world and even that, you will find out that each and every instrumentalist is unique in his or her own way. You can't say Lang Lang is a better pianist than Yuja Wang. You can't say Sarah Chang is a better violinist than David Garret. And you can't say I'm a better keyboardist than Addaquay - believe me, it's a crime.
A big shoutout to Choral Music Ghana and the CEO, Jesse Jojo Johnson.
