To Bill: >> it occurs to me that formally trained musicians and composers like >> yourself have always been at odds with "musicians" like me who will >> gleefully murder a tune and disregard learned opinion if it "feels" ok >> to do so. We haven't heard you do this, yet. An example?
>> this must be very irritating. Mildly. >> the only consolation i can offer you is that this haughty disdain, on >> one part and "don't care" obstinacy, on the other, is probably very >> much in keeping with the hip ethos. your lot were probably slagging >> off my lot, centuries ago. As long as you don't do what we call in Russian "mistake an omelette for a god-given gift". To Howard: > I can't speak to who was "slagging off" whom, since I don't know what the > expression means, but I think musicians who approach earlier music from an > uneducated or semi-educated, folk or pop direction aren't particularly > irritating, and indeed occasionally offer a useful perspective about music > composed when the concept of "classical" music didn't really exist. And sometimes they are much preferred: Marco Beasley, Pino di Vittorio, Marcello Vitale to name but a few. > What's far more irritating are the illiterate sort of remarks you get from > old-line classical musicians (Perlman and Zuckerman, for example) who call > HIP "ridiculous" because they think, like a lot of musicians before them, > that the way they were taught to play is the only correct way. Indeed. However gypsy morendo of these 2 men just doesn't cut it anymore as the "correct" way. Another however: Equally irritating is the insistence that "Beethoven played by a Papuan, on a stick and a hole" (also a Russian idiom) should have equal treatment with more appropriate ways. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
