Soubasse
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I have just this last hour heard the final 15 or so minutes of a thoroughly excellent address by Australian conductor Simone Young, on ABC FM. An edited transcript of it can be found here.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...le-hicks-address/story-e6frg8n6-1225901804123
I gather that there will be some audio clips forthcoming on the ABC FM website and I for one will be downloading so I can hear it from start to finish. She spoke very well on the issues of performance practice, interpretation and education. Practically everything she was saying, I found myself nodding whole-heartedly in agreeance. The only thing missing from the above transcript was a superb example of peoples perceptions and/or receptions toward a certain piece of music. She used a few bars of a Bruckner work conducted by Furtwangler. It was repeated three more times and prior to each repeat, she revealed a few more facts about the circumstances surrounding its performance in order to affect the listeners reception of exactly the same recording. It was a very good and singularly effective illustration of the nature of subjectivity when listening.
There were some other audio examples too of whom she regarded as the first composers to give us "soundbites" before the era of audio recording.
IMO, anyone who values the assessment and re-assessment of performance, interpretation and education of music will appreciate Simone Young's most articulate thoughts.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...le-hicks-address/story-e6frg8n6-1225901804123
I gather that there will be some audio clips forthcoming on the ABC FM website and I for one will be downloading so I can hear it from start to finish. She spoke very well on the issues of performance practice, interpretation and education. Practically everything she was saying, I found myself nodding whole-heartedly in agreeance. The only thing missing from the above transcript was a superb example of peoples perceptions and/or receptions toward a certain piece of music. She used a few bars of a Bruckner work conducted by Furtwangler. It was repeated three more times and prior to each repeat, she revealed a few more facts about the circumstances surrounding its performance in order to affect the listeners reception of exactly the same recording. It was a very good and singularly effective illustration of the nature of subjectivity when listening.
There were some other audio examples too of whom she regarded as the first composers to give us "soundbites" before the era of audio recording.
IMO, anyone who values the assessment and re-assessment of performance, interpretation and education of music will appreciate Simone Young's most articulate thoughts.