Arto Wikla wrote: > Dear lutenists, > > I do not want to set light to make a fight, but I would like to make > an artistic, aesthetic poll. Everybody is right and everybody is wrong, > as always in aesthetic questions. > > So how would you set the aesthetic quality of the (parts) of > Bourgeois Gentilhomme setup by Jean Marie Bigard, pointed us by > Roman: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crgelhKxz34&eurl > > Let the scale be: 1=horrible, 2=..., ..., 5=great. > > You can answer to the list or privately to me - I promise to keep > the secret! In a week or so I'll publish the results. > > I already have one 5 (me) and one 1. To me those dances and the music > (with the drumming) represents modern Frech style of making these > things. Arto,
If I'm the person who gave it a '1' on your scale, it's certainly not because of contemporary dance groups being inspired by Lully. The dancing isn't this issue. One of my wife's colleagues has recently made a dance piece using part of Stravinsky's 'Les Noces' with dance and video to explore Russian women today going abroad to find husbands. The choreographer didn't - and, of course -couldn't, add a rock drum track. It would be impossible to add a crude rock drum track to Stravinsky. The fact that it is possible to add the small gamut or fake-emotive gestures of rock drumming (of a middle aged-elderly audience's youth) to Lully doesn't mean that you should. It's just not the case that 'everybody is right and everybody is wrong' in aesthetics. It's fun to have an opinion poll and I hope lots of people join in. But that isn't going to sort out anything. > But in very much in the same spirit Lully and Moliere made > their play in their days. To me that really works! > > If you write some explanations in private, my possible quotes will > also be anonymous. But then to the poll: Please vote! :-) > > All the best, > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
