Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2005/01

From: Daniel Fairhead <madprof@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Klocker
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:23:47 -0500

Dan,

I know, I completely agree with you on this. I was attempting to be
funny... (and see if I could find a single instance in all possible
conditions wherebt K.622 could have a cadenza...)

Dan

> 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?
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> Music of any period is fragile, and you can break it by using
> devices from later periods simply because you have them.
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Fairhead [mailto:madprof@-----.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 2:52 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Klocker
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> > 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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