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Henk van Tuijl ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>... What do we say when we say that someone's playing is poetic? Do
>we only mean to say that it is so in our perception?
Largely, yes.
>Is there nothing "out there"? Doesn't the peformance of the artist matter
>at all?
Of course. If I attempted to play the music the first word to spring
to mind would be "incompetent".
>In other words, is the audience the "creator" of a poetical musical
>performance and not the musician?
No, the performer performs and the listener takes what (s)he can/wants to
from the performance. What I hear as poetic you may not and vice-versa.
>And suppose that this were the case, should we not blame The Grammophone
>for hiring critics who are obviously uncreative - as in the case of
>Duchable?
The only problem I have is when a CD is assigned to a critic who obviously
doesn't even like the music and therefore, IMHO, has no right criticising
the performance. Indeed, I consider it unethical and immoral.
Deryk Barker
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