Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-04-12 21:58
Let's think in different terms...
Do we swing Copland or not? Hasn't the point been missed here?
Horovitz Sonantina, 3rd movement. If you swing...its sounds rediculous...if you style it, it transforms from what is dull on the page to being an incredible piece.
I think the idea of Copland wanting Benny Goodman to play exactly what is on the page is silly. Ever seen a conductor who asks a concerto soloist to change the way they're playing something?
I can see it now...
Mikhail Pletnev:
"Excuse me Mr. Collins, I think your ornaments in the 1st movement of this Mozart concerto we're recording for Deutsch Gramaphone are rubbish, and your use of articulation is totally inappropriate."
Michael Collins:
"I do apologise Maestro, I shall endeavour to change"
Erm...no.
Benny Goodman always had an enormous chip on his shoulder about what the classical world thought of him. If he had recorded a true Benny Goodman performance of a work by Copland, then he would have thought people were laughing at him behind his back.
Oh dear...I can see the furious responses already!!
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