Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-10-07 07:46
I've frequently been told by chamber coaches and so on that musicians should be more like actors. The intent is to get people to understand that just playing the notes with a nice sound and plausible style isn't enough, and that's a valid point if you listen to, say, really good string quartets. The players try to embody the music itself, rather than representing it somehow at a distance. At the same time, composers like Brahms and Beethoven didn't write symphonies and quartets with the same intent that people write plays. It's fairly clear from reading some of the things Beethoven wrote that he thought he was expressing something greater than himself, and that he wasn't doing it through representing limited "characters," as in drama. To the extent you become your part in the Ninth, for example, you're neither acting nor expressing yourself, but participating in Beethoven's expression of something beyond both. But all music isn't Beethoven 9. As performers, we're responsible for making the stuff we're playing meaningful for people, and what that entails depends a lot on the music and the circumstances. No single answer works for everything.
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