Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2005/01

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:05:17 -0500

Well Dan, you take your life in your hands when you give 18th
century music 20th century values. Can one safely put a hoop
skirt and bra on the Venus di Milo and survive the culture clash?
(The fig leaf was introduced to prevent immodesty 8 centuries
after the statues showed genitalia.) Should one use a tenor sax
in a performance of the Gran Partitta? What events from later
periods is it safe to introduce retroactively? This very
question is at the heart of period performances; i.e., if you
want to hear the music the Mozart heard it, then you must accept
certain restrictions when performing it. Should one play
Mozart's concerto for three pianos using a Mozart sized orchestra
and three Bosendorfers?

Music of any period is fragile, and you can break it by using
devices from later periods simply because you have them.

There was once a woman on this list who said that she was a 20th
century feminist who accepted no boundaries on her wishes to
perform Mozart any way she wanted. I was startled by the
chutzpah of that statement because what it said was that the
social phenomenona of one era can be safely ignored by another.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Fairhead [mailto:madprof@-----.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 2:52 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Klocker

> None of this history has anything to do with the presence or
> absence of the cadenza, but I thought you should know generally
> what happened to the work and why there is a question of the
> authority of what is played today. But there is no question
that
> the work as we know it HAS NO CADENZAS in it.

Except, and this is of vital importance and relevance and should
always be kept in mind at all times when performance of K.622
comes up,
it is permissable to play a cadenza when playing it as part of a
period drama based in 1900...

( Another ) Dan

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