“The problem was that the teacher did not teach expressiveness as part of the learning process but still expected the student to perform expressively. All of us, whether teacher or performer, occasionally spend more time developing the technical ability to perform certain literature. There is certainly nothing wrong in using this approach occasionally, but to do so all the time, with every composition, dulls our emotive abilities. Therein lies the danger: our technical skills flourish while our expressive skills languish.”