Author: vboboe
Date: 2009-01-11 19:37
... don't get me wrong, i'm definitely not against the idea, just think it would have to be very well done, everyone is inspired in different ways to express themselves musically
as examples of 'soul in it' - just reviewed Romano's solo for 2007 UN Convention, and Kwak's performance also on youtube -- both were very well done, both had soul in it, although personally, eyes closed, my limbic brain automatically responded more to Romano's
while one is focused on delivering ornamentations, playing energy for the piece is being directed into glitz and bling rather than emotive content, unless one is really skilled or well practiced at putting it all together, and hey yes, by all means, go for all of that, definitely expand musical horizons
<<as long as it isn't a paying audience, otherwise, oops ...>>
comment intended to remind us of copyright issues, composer's still alive
and also, going public domain with twinkling Variations on youtube could become an issue there -- but difficult to challenge, no doubt
when all's said and done, this is somebody's else's copyright composition, not one's own to rework any way one likes just because it's so wonderfully inspiring; as i've already said before, just trying to play it straight up and also be inspiring is technically hard enough to achieve (well, that's from my playing skills perspective, obviously more advanced players would see it as a piece of cake)
Sarah Brightman had to go through hoops to get the song Nella Fantasia OK'd -- both are gorgeously inspiring, but the music wasn't her own composition to put the words to it, so she respected copyright
let me say it again
<<IMO technically interesting ornamentatal twinklings **wouldn't be a good substitute for emotive and soulful content in this particular piece **>>
emphasis on 'substitute' and 'this particular piece'
read the youtube comments, what moves people like this?
The composition itself, yes, and the musicians are putting soul into it as well, so that's what's carrying over to the audience and that's what the audience wants to feel
it's not possible to canonize emotional-devotional-spiritual feeling content
-- one can play the melody twice with technical excellence and different expression, and vary it with ornamentations, all of which can be stylistically canonized in the future, but if the other 'intangible' content is missing ... dutchy already said it <<What they want is to be energized ... >>
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