On Dec 18, 2013, at 1:47 PM, Dan Winheld <dwinh...@lmi.net> wrote: > Is it just me, or is there not something ironic about a serious minded 21st > century LUTE-list member finding a great 20th century musical icon (think of > him what one will otherwise) "outdated"?
Not at all. Implicit in the whole early music movement is the assumption that the mainstream classical approach to early music was outdated, including icons like Karajan, Stokowski, and yes, Segovia. Their approach was an early-to-mid-twentieth-century approach that became outdated when we learned better. In Joel Cohen's Reprise (1985), a book about the early music revival that is quickly becoming a historical document in its own right, he tells of a young French tenor who encountered his former voice teacher at the Paris Conservatoire and told her that he just sang a Machaut mass in concert. She got upset and said, "How many times times must I tell you? There's no future in that crazy modern music!" -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
