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 24.1 : Reinterpreting opera
Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
5 minutes 8 seconds
10 months ago
Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.1 : Reinterpreting opera
In current opera productions the stage and music directors work alongside each other using completely different and incompatible belief systems. As we’ve seen, there is no good reason not to reread the score just as radically as the text, opening up the intriguing option of performing the score in such a way as to tell the same story as the staging...
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.
