Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

Ranking artists…is it a science, a skill or utter silliness? In 2023, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the 250 greatest guitar players. It was a nice try but it resembled a popularity contest rather than truly judging artistic merit. Granted, art can never be akin to a quantitative comparison process like athletics. However, it is obvious that some musicians have more talent than others. But what is the best way to rate and rank a musician? Let’s dig deep in this lecture, get all opinionated and try to come up with an empirical formula for how musical greatness should be evaluated.