ABSTRACT
Jim Henson’s The Ghost of Faffner Hall has an episode entitled ‘Music is more than technique’, which includes a scene where the virtuoso violinist Piginini is discovered in the concert hall basement by the janitor (who looks suspiciously like Ry Cooder, and ensures a happy ending by teaching him how to play the blues). The maestro is frightened of going out in front of his audience, because, although technically brilliant, he can only play scales and arpeggios, and needs the manuscript in front of him – but the paying customers want him to play music.
