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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2005/03
From: h.micklem@-----.uk
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Interpretation or parody?
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:10:31 -0500
Who would guess that we probably agree about almost everything here?
Let's just leave it now, shall we?
Spedding
>Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:47:12 +0100
>To: doublereed@-----.org
>From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
>Subject: Interpretation or Parody?
>Message-Id: <5846D704-8B32-11D9-A08E-0003936BFE44@-----.com>
>
>On Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at 03:39 pm, h.micklem@-----.uk wrote:
>
>> I was still interested in an answer to my original question, which you
>> seemed to consider not worth asking.
>
>Dear Spedding,
>
>I wonder why? Every question is worth asking, particularly
>those with reference to performers and curiosity about them.
>We can all learn from every inspiring performance.
>
>> I think it's quite an interesting question.
>
>So do I. Passing a comment does not exclude my interest in
>other knowledge and comments.
>
>> How one might be affected by the answer depends, of course, on many
>> things.
>
>That is, I believe, exactly what I was saying in a paraphrased
>condensation.
>
>Cathy Berberian's recording of the Beatles' Songs has recently
>been re-released. She sings "Yesterday" as she put it - "like
>Joan Baez, had she taken lessons from Elizabeth Schwartzkopf."
>Superb Parody - once can identify all three, Berberian, Baez
>and Schwartzkopf.
>
>Could I play a piece with the tone of Pierre Pierlot had he
>taken lessons with Heinz Holliger (I am aware of the generation
>gap)?
>
>Well, my answer is - I think it is better to be myself - no
>way could I pull off that hat trick and be true to any given
>element, but having heard a performance I admire, it will
>inevitably affect my thoughts - thus, my interpretation.
>
>That in no way implies I am disinterested in who composed, who
>performed, whose vibrato and tone colour changed or why.
>Can one ever know why?
>
>At the end of the day, I will still sound like me even if I
>modify X and Y for an audience who would not know my
>reasons for so doing.
>
>You may of course, feel totally differently, which is your right.
>
>I do not presume to tell you otherwise. I just presume I
>can make a comment.
>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>
>and as I said before, I hope you enjoy your concert.
>>
>> Spedding
>>
>
>Jennifer
>
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>Jennifer Paull
>http://www.amoris.com
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