Arto,
There a worldwide reaction to technology, manifesting inself in heightened
interest in handmaid and traditional things.
Interest in Early Music in general and in the lute in particular is part of
that same process.
RT
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From: "wikla" <[email protected]>
To: "David Rastall" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Roman Turovsky" <[email protected]>; "Lutelist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 4:29 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: The reason we play lutes
This is something I strongly disagree! Roman said that "EM revival in
general was a
reaction to this type of (neo)modernism". I do not know, if Roman refers
to
20's, 30's,
60's or 70's by the "EM revival", but in any of these cases I cannot see
any reaction
to "(neo)modernism". What I CAN see (at least in cases of 60's and 70's)
is
a reaction
against the established style of making the 150th version of Beethoven's
5th - every
time tuning the strings a little it higher... Or all the 1000's of cases
playing Bach
by piano or by symphony orchestra... At least in my experience the persons
who preferred
EM to the "establishment" were just the same who also enjoyed the modern
music.
Another matter is (luckily!) that nowadays our "EM" aesthetics are a
"must", if you want
to perform music of "Bach and before". But I still wait they'll do also
Sibelius (et al.)
in the "HIP" manner, in the way he heard it. That still is definitely not
the case.
Arto
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 22:25:46 -0400, David Rastall <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
EM revival in general was a reaction to this type of (neo)modernism.
In that context, anything is possible. I knew a college professor
back in the day who was a composer. He called his work "radical-neo-
post-diatonicism." The weird thing was that he was deadly serious
about it. That's really how he wanted to be known! I have enough
trouble with Charles Mouton, without having to contend with neo-styro-
HIP.
Best,
David Rastall
[email protected]
www.rastallmusic.com
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