Chris, as for me, I'm not a prof musician like you are. However, I love to attend recitals where I can hear and learn something new. Not necessarily new music (perhaps, though, newly discovered early music), new interpretations will do as well.
I do not expect performers to meet my desire for joy. I do not want musicians to play all the old goodies that we all know so well. I do not judge performers according to recordings that I'm familiar with or according to recitals that I've attended before. I try not to be a resentment-listener, as Adorno would put it (Ressentiment-Hörer). For me, early music is an opportunity to encounter musical ideas of the past in a live context. Beauty in terms of music was defined differently in different eras of the past. That applies to lute music as well. I think that's why there were such a lot of different types of lutes. I try not to apply my 21st century notion of beauty on early music. E. g. some modern interpretation of inegale in French baroque lute music are taken from US-American jazz. May be right, may be wrong. At least I try to be aware of whence my means of interpretation comes. Unfortunately, I was raised in an environment where information about the 17th through 19th centuries was no natural part of education. So I can't do it all naturally like David R. Enjoyment and appreciation of the arts have been matters of training and education ever since. I think performers should not only try to focus but also know their audiences. I once had the opportunity to attend a recital where the singer informed the audiences in a tuning-break that there had been lots of other musical versions of the Seven Commandments in the 17th century. When people started giggling, he looked puzzled but wouldn't realize the reason behind the regalement. Mathias -----Original-Nachricht----- > Subject: [LUTE] Re: What's the point to 'historical sound' > Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 05:39:05 +0200 > From: Christopher Wilke <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Mathias, > > > --- On Sat, 7/2/11, Mathias Roesel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Audiences expected to be pleased. > > > > I beg to differ. > > > > What do you call a person who doesn't believe that people come to > concerts to enjoy themselves? A musician. > > Chris > > Christopher Wilke > Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer > www.christopherwilke.com > > > > > > > > > Mathias > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > >
