Klarinet Archive - Posting 000243.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cultural Relativism (was Mozart and the V word)
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:16:52 -0400

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Sherry Katz wrote:

> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:35:38 -0700
> From: Sherry Katz <slkatz@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Cultural Relativism (was Mozart and the V word)
>
>[bitz cut out]

> Another factor is that when it comes to playing music, no matter how much
> training you have, the music that comes from a particular individual is
> always an interpretation. That interpretation comes from the sum total of
> what that individual is. That's why you can "copy" someone else's style and
> still be uniquely original. No person playing in the twentieth century - no
> matter how much they use authentic instruments, choose an "authentic" hall,
> study the performance style of Mozart, or anything else is anything other
> than a person in the 20th century playing Mozart.
This is worth saying, but it amounts to a tautology, nonetheless. We still
need to find out as much as possible about "authentic" performance
prectices.
Roger Shilcock

>
> This may be cultural relativism, but it's also they way it is. Oh yeah, I
> graduated from Law School and passed the bar in a couple of states and even
> worked as a lawyer for 15 years or so. <g>
>
> Sherry Katz
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Fay (LCA) <kevinfay@-----.com>
> To: 'klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 1:11 PM
> Subject: [kl] Cultural Relativism (was Mozart and the V word)
>
>
> >Wow. Deja Vu all over again. What we have here is the entire debate over
> >cultural relativism, boiled down to the question of whether it is
> >appropriate to use vibrato in the Mozart concerto.
> >
>
> >In a nutshell: the "conservative" position is that facts are facts, and
> >that you can tell or prove they are facts ("truths") by personal
> >observation. An example--the "fact" that a specimen of hamburger meat is
> >contaminated. I know this because I can see the bacteria under a
> >microscope; if I wait, I can tell by smelling. Now, if you can't see the
> >bacteria, it's because your microscope is defective--the microbes are still
> >there.
>
>
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