Klarinet Archive - Posting 000352.txt from 2005/02

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Composer's intentions
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:18:20 -0500

Your conception of a divide is divisive and stupid.

Right now I'm listening to a CD of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1
performed by Emanuel Ax and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
on period instruments, and obviously with a great deal of painstaking
research into performance practises of the time.

There's nothing about this recording that is a museum piece; it's
exciting, living music, as is every other period instrument performance
I have on disc.

What you clearly don't understand is that those who seek to understand
and preserve what the composer wrote and why are doing it *because this
knowledge helps in allowing the music to live*, as attested to by the
remarkable performances of many of these artists. The fact that you
don't appreciate this speaks volumes, in my opinion.

Vann Joe Turner wrote:

>What seems apparent is a great divide:
>
>To some, music is a butterfly on the wing, living, breathing, moving,
>glorious.
>
>To others, it is a butterfly pinned onto blotting paper in a glass case in
>some dusty museum.
>
>Personally I subscribe to the first category: I'd rather hear the overture
>to Oberon played by a high school band, than study the orchestral
>manuscript.
>
>But if anyone wishes to subscribe to the second, I'll respect that choice.
>
>Best wishes,
>Vann Joe
>
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