What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.