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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: OK, So Who Are the Most OVER-rated Pianists? posted by Tadlo on November 26, 2014 at 05:22:14:
I don't have a dog in the fight--a friend posed the question while saying that the "Underrated" thread was not what was needed.
My take-away is in the form of two points:
One, "Horses for Courses." An English expression meaning that a horse that runs well on a dry track might not run well on a muddy track. (Not that all such expectations or judgments hold water. We rarely, except over the car radio when a piece has already started before we get in to drive, encounter a performance anonymously, but I can assure you that such epiphanies, when they come, are valuable.)
I not only think that there are very few if any pianists who are great in "everything," I also have no problem at all with a pianist with a narrower-than-average repertoire. It's rare for the same actor to do well in both King Lear and Hamlet during the same season (though of course over the decades, a great Hamlet may 30 years later be a great King Lear).
Two, not to be discounted is the fact that the performance of music is a performance art, and that the relationship between performer and audience member or recording artists and listener is a complex non-deterministic system... .
Heifetz, Piatigorsky, Rachmaninoff, and Milstein were icons of aspirational culture at a time when many Americans had mixed feelings of envy while claiming irrelevance about Europe and European culture. There was a bit of a reaction in the deportment and public personas of artists like Roy Harris, Carl Ruggles, Lou Harrison, and to a degree Aaron Copland. But even today, performers with glittering good looks, whether Kiri te Kanawa, Anna Netrebko, or Anne-Sophie Mutter, seem to have an advantage over people who don't fuss as much over their public image.
Case in point, could the under-rated-ness of Ivan Moravec be related to his rather total lack of Van-Cliburn-like good looks and media charm?
So, our responses are multivariant. We think we learn things about the kind of person a musician is, and then we might we project that back into the music--regardless whether it belongs there.
So, everybody, thanks for the Rorschach Blots!
(This one is of two music critics playing Patty-Cake.)
JM
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Follow Ups
- My take-aways - John Marks 07:57:32 11/26/14 (2)
- RE: My take-aways - Amphissa 10:23:38 11/26/14 (0)
- It's a fun topic in any case - Chris from Lafayette 09:17:40 11/26/14 (0)
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