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In Reply to: RE: Speaking only for myself, in every possible sense of "only," posted by John Marks on January 20, 2015 at 10:28:45
Okay, he's not that good, but his music-making with the Chamber Orchestra was wonderful.
Put me down as also feeling "the other guy" was ridiculously overrated...
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My specific criticism of the unreal hype over Mr. Perlman was that the mass-media praise was basically from semi-educated amateurs when it came to classical music--OR, if that sticks in throats--the praise was directed at people whose most immersive exposure to classical music was PBS Beg-a-Thons.
So the result was that IP was coronated as The Violinist for All Seasons and All Purposes.
But the reality was that he often played as though he were out of his depth in the deepest and most meaningful music. Bach, Beethoven, and Elgar are composers where I found him not really with it.
But the other side of the coin is that for "virtuoso," thrills and chills music from Tchakovsky to Wieniawski to Bazzini and all the way back to Paganini (which, when you think of it, is a pretty narrow slice of pie) he was the most brilliant and most scintillating of his time, and perhaps even decisively better than Heifetz and perhaps even the young Menuhin--in technical execution of showpieces.
In a way it is nice when mass media takes note of high culture, but especially these days there is not bandwidth for nuance and so a little knowledge becomes a dangerous thing, or at least a limiting thing.
And I do wish that someone would reboot the "First Hearing" concept, perhaps as a podcast...
jm
You put it very well, I certainly didn't mean to argue with any of that. FWIW, having seen and read interviews of Perlman, he's a reasonably modest guy as to his place in violin history with a sense of humor about himself. He is well aware of all the hype he has received, but pointed out a few years ago it hasn't made him fabulously wealthy, he still has to work for a living. At this point he's probably getting close to semi-retirement as a performer, or at least reduced concert touring.
OK, Performance Mustangs was a red herring.
jm
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