Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
76 episodes
9 months ago
The UN Human Rights Council advocates ‘the right ... to freely ... contribute to artistic expressions and creations'. This the classical music business does not currently permit. There’s no excuse for such a high-profile, high-status embodiment of Western cultural values not to be in conformity with its (now) foundational statement of ethical and political values. And no need either.
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The UN Human Rights Council advocates ‘the right ... to freely ... contribute to artistic expressions and creations'. This the classical music business does not currently permit. There’s no excuse for such a high-profile, high-status embodiment of Western cultural values not to be in conformity with its (now) foundational statement of ethical and political values. And no need either.
Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.2 : Comparison with theatre practice
Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
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Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.2 : Comparison with theatre practice
We have only to imagine how dreary theatre would be if every performance of ‘Hamlet’ used the same gestures and the same intonations—all enforced by an ideologically-contrained community of actors and gatekeepers claiming to be faithful—to see how disastrously classical music has backed itself into a corner.
Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
The UN Human Rights Council advocates ‘the right ... to freely ... contribute to artistic expressions and creations'. This the classical music business does not currently permit. There’s no excuse for such a high-profile, high-status embodiment of Western cultural values not to be in conformity with its (now) foundational statement of ethical and political values. And no need either.
