Klarinet Archive - Posting 000457.txt from 2010/11

From: josh stein <jstein53@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Sabine Meyer, but actually, text and meaning
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:59:58 -0500

What is more important is the product being put out by the performer. If
anybody on this list thinks that they could match Sabine Meyer's abilities,
than you can criticize all you want. I have herd several
recordings of hers and they awesome. Check for you selves.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Howe
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 11:48 AM
To: klarinet@-----.com
Subject: [kl] Sabine Meyer, but actually,text and meaning

> Hall himself draws a comparison
> between drama and the period instrument movement, notably the focus on
> both getting the composer's text right and getting the interpretation
> right. There's a paragraph where he contrasts this with the common and
> casual practice of cutting and even rewriting Shakespeare -- something
> which is unthinkable with e.g. Pinter or Beckett -- and urges that we
> should place value on every word and phrase, just as musicians do with
> notes.

This displays the common, insipid modern obsession with Text. What is more
important, the text of a work or the meaning of the work? If a small
"unthinkable" re-write in Pinter, or dropping a scene in Shakespeare, or
playing a Mozart symphony on a modern orchestra will permit one to
experience the work in a way that better meets the artists' interpretation,
what is wrong with that? I mean really, guys--Pinter and Shakespeare and
Mozart were all active performers, they understood that what the auteur
writes is neither final nor definitive, that theater is a living art which
requires accommodation to local artistic circumstances. Indeed, if what the
auteur writes were final and definitive, you clarinet guys and gals would be
sitting out the g minor symphony...

Cheers

Robert Howe
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