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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000011.txt from 2003/09

From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Choice
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:50:37 -0400

>,,, and why do I have the feeling that no one will be able to answer

this question???

"Every actor and musician has a text upon which to base his art, but he

can treat the text in one of two ways. The difference lies in how much

the performer believes his own work can be =93notated.=94 In music, this

means asking how far the system of musical signs printed on the page
can actually represent the music the composer heard in his head. If you

believe these signs=97the notes, the loud and soft markings, tempo
indications=97are an adequate language, then in performing the piece you

concentrate on realizing in sound what you, the performer, read. If you

believe music cannot be adequately notated, then your task in the
performance is to find what is missing from the printed page. The actor

has a similar choice. He can treat the text either as a set of
suggestions for a character in Shakespeare=92s or Ibsen=92s mind,
suggestions which cannot be ignored, but leave him much freedom, or he

can treat the text as bible which, once understood, will tell him how
to act."

-Richard Sennett (b. 1943) U.S. social historian
=93The Public Men of the 19th Century,=94 The Fall of the Public Man,=A0

(1977)

Because, Sameer, the same thing means different rainbows to different
paint brushes......
As interpreters, that's what we are. Everyone's taste is different.

Enjoy!

Jennifer

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Jennifer Paull,
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
Rare music at the press of an oboe and a computer key
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