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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: Big surprise - NOT: HIPsters have vibrato all WRONG (according to The Strad) posted by Chris from Lafayette on February 22, 2015 at 00:30:28:
These days, I listen to only a very little music from the era before Beethoven. The Bach music for solo instruments, a Mozart opera or three. That's about it.So, I have no real emotional investment in this issue and view the entire controversy with detachment and no small amount of boredom. The two sides have reached stalemate.
The fact is, even up into the Romantic era, composers expected that their music would be adapted, edited, revised, embellished and manipulated in various ways for performance. I doubt that Vivaldi, Haydn or Mozart would give a diddly-squat about the argument over string vibrato.
There are different ways to play *any* music. To argue that one interpretation is more "authentic" than another is pretty silly. Music is a performance art -- an entertainment for listeners.
A piece is birthed by a composer, but nurtured by its performers, who give it new life with each personal interpretation. That is as true of music from the pre-Romantic era as it is of Romantic and post-Romantic era music. From the hyperdrive of Toscanini to the tortured soporifics of Celibidache, and every variation in between.
Of course, as listeners, we prefer our own favorite styles and interpretations and performers. Luckily, in this day, we have a wealth of options and can pick and choose.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Edits: 02/22/15
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