The Langley School Music Project - Space Oddity: youtube.com/watch?v=GRZBvJx4XEE&feature=related
Interpretation is as valid a skill as composition. Or, so I would deem it.
In composition you are dealing with several base elements. You begin with nothing, take one idea or note or concept and you manipulate it, add and retract until you come up with an idea, note or concept which is brighter and more vivid than the original. Then, as the most basic element is formed, one must then decide whether it is complete in its entirety or else complimentary elements must be added in order to flesh it out and make it whole. This stage begins and ends and continues until the composition is complete. One could add compliment for an eternity (like a Brian Wilson).
Interpretation is none too different. The only difference lies in the beginning; you are not beginning with nothing, the most basic element has been handed to you. This is not to say, even, that the interpretation of a work lies in the piece itself. One could conceivably make an interpretation of a piece which diverges so drastically that the interpretation is indecipherable from the original. These, I find, can be the best of interpretation. Otherwise one can drift closely to the realm of imitation.
That said, I think I'm more an interpreter than a composer.
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