Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 1999/03

From: "B. Keplinger" <bcaslin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] HIP, was RE: [kl] Sabine Meyer's Stamitz
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 19:22:27 -0500

At 11:28 AM 3/1/99 -0600, Martin Pergler <pergler@-----.edu> wrote:
>PROSCIUTTO!! The question of "taste" is *very* important in *all*
>music...
Martin,
Well said -- bravo!! (I guess that makes it clear where I stand on the
issue...)
But let's give those in the HIP camp their due. One morning a few
years ago, NPR's Morning Edition did a piece on Christopher Hogwood's (if
my memory serves me) recent recordings of the Beethoven symphonies -- HIP,
of course. I must admit that hearing the climactic grate of the minor
second in the trumpets -- giving way to the repeated poundings of the same
in the lower strings, almost painfully fading into the next section -- made
me realize just how revolutionary Beethoven's music was, and how it must
have inflamed critics and fans alike. How much we miss in the beautiful,
but comparatively antiseptic, performances of the modern symphony orchestra
(do I see some sudden flaring out there?).
There is clearly a place for HIP, but like vitamins, more is not always
better.
And, except for Webern and the like, I think there are few composers
who don't want to give musicians leeway, to truly make *music* of their
work. Isn't this, after all, what we put ourselves through the torture of
the musical life for (food for more flaming, yes?)?
BTW, ditto to RG's comment ("I love this list.")!
-BK

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