Klarinet Archive - Posting 000355.txt from 2005/02

From: "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Composer's intentions
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:17:17 -0500

Joseph,
Age of Enlightment is the resurrection of the museum butterfly!
Sarah

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> From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Composer's intentions
> Sent: 23 Feb 2005 16:16:49
>
> 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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