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David Harbin writes in response to me:
>One of my favourite recordings (Ariadne auf Naxos, Bohm, live 1944) is
>full of the life and magic of a stunning live performance.
Except that it isn't live. You can repeat it at will. That is
the difference I was trying, imperfectly, to convey. We find it
increasingly difficult to sink ourselves into the expensive, inconvenient,
once-and-for-all, here-and-now of the theatrical experience when these
siren-CDs and videos are calling us.
>Plus there are obviously plenty of examples where something, that
>special 'x' factor, flashes in the studio just as legitimately as it
>does in the theatre.
Of course - but it's a totally different 'x' factor, not the same sort
of experience at all. The uniquely lasting quality theatre offers us
lies, paradoxically, in its transience. Like a sunset or a perfect fig
Christopher Webber, Blackheath, London, UK
http://www.zarzuela.net
"ZARZUELA!" The Spanish Music Site
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