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 Re: Copland Cadenza Interpretation?
Author: EEBaum 
Date:   2008-10-04 15:48

Another thing, and I think many will disagree with me on this...

I consider the composer to be only one part of the music making process. Once there are notes on the page, the composer's job is done. The composer has given their input, and indicated how they think something cool can be done.

Without performers, though, the composer has no music (unless he synthesizes it, and unless the piece was intended to be synthesized I'd argue that he STILL has no music). I find music to be a vibrant, interactive, collaborative activity between the performers and, by proxy of written music, the composer. I think it is completely the performer's right to take the music and do whatever they want to with it.

While I think it is valuable to play a piece of music "as the composer intended," I find it equally valuable to explore a piece of music "as the composer most certainly did NOT intend." It keeps the music alive, brings about new ideas, and leads to a sense of freedom and adventure (and, I think, more intimate familiarity with the music) that is so lacking in the "classical" world today.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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